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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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It is therefore also a common noun, and may refer to any of the following:

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The name of the town itself derives from the common noun bankya, 'hot spring; a diminutive of banya which in Bulgarian means 'bath'.

Round about Bankya: looking for a place near Sofia to stretch your ... by Iliev, Nick / The Sofia Echo (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Participants in each country took tests of immediate and delayed recall of 10 common nouns, such as "hotel", "river", "tree", "skin", "gold", "village", "baby" and "table".

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