English Words: N
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The study of personal identities that are not rooted in one place or limited to a single fixed worldview.
A point halfway between the fess point (centre of the shield) and the middle base (bottom) point of an escutcheon.
The name designating a Roman citizen as a member of a particular gens; a gentile name.
The second of the two nouns in status constructus, which occurs in its phonetically full form or status absolutus.
The first of the two nouns in status constructus, which occurs in a phonetically abbreviated state. For example, in Hebrew, the word "queen" standing alone is malka מלכה. When the word is possessed, as in "Queen of Sheba" (literally "Sheba's Queen"), it becomes malkat šəba מלכת שבא, in which malkat is the construct state (possessed) form and malka is the absolute (unpossessed) form. Thus, the possessed noun in the construct state (Queen) is the nomen regens (governing noun), and the possessor noun, often in the genitive case (Sheba's), is the nomen rectum (governed noun).
A valid taxon name derived from a change in taxonomic rank to a previously published name.
A singulative noun; a noun denoting an individual, formed from a more basic collective noun.
a noun denoting a single accomplishment of an action (rather than the action as such)
To assign a name to, especially in accordance with a particular system of nomenclature; to name.
An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.
A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter N contains 24,391 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 488 pages, and you are currently viewing page 202. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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