Associations to the word «Adnoun»

Wiktionary

ADNOUN, noun. (grammar) an adjective used as a noun (sensu stricto), an absolute adjective
ADNOUN, noun. (grammar) (dated) an adjective

Dictionary definition

ADNOUN, noun. An adjective used as a noun; "`meek' in `blessed are the meek' is an adnoun".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky