In linguistics, the term noun class refers to a system of categorizing nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of characteristic features of its referent, such as sex, animacy, shape, but counting a given noun among nouns of such or another class is often clearly conventional. Some authors use the term "grammatical gender" as a synonym of "noun class", but others use different definitions for each (see below). Noun classes should not be confused with noun classifiers.
Read more about Noun Class: Notion, Noun Classes Versus Grammatical Genders, Noun Classes Versus Noun Classifiers, List of Languages By Type of Noun Classification
Famous quotes containing the words noun and/or class:
“It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”
—A.J. (Arthur James)