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common noun

Any of the vast majority of nouns: all except proper nouns are common nouns. Proper nouns name particular things, and need a capital letter. The remainder are common nouns, though they may be divided into concrete (desk, ball) and abstract (cold, fear, evil).

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Before the rise of Christianity, the Greek common noun hairesis most often referred to a philosophical preference or school of thought--the Stoics, the Peripatetics, the Cynics, and so forth.

Judas & Jesus: what did the gnostics really believe? by Miles, Jack / Commonweal

[Regarding] your saying that "the heavy bodies are in their position and not in their center because they are prevented [from being in there]", I say that it must be known that the center is not only the center point of the world, but it is also a common noun used to describe the position of any totality in nature.

Ibn Sina--Al-Biruni correspondence by Iqbal, Muzaffar / Islam & Science

To play, call out common nouns ("armadillo") and proper nouns ("Michael Jordan") at random.

A noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, or idea by Chanko, Pamela / Instructor (1990)

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