WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
noun′ phrase′, [Gram.]
- Grammara construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
- 1950–55
'noun phrase' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
apposition
- article
- as
- attributive
- complement
- determiner
- direct object
- every
- indirect object
- nominal
- noun
- object
- other
- pronoun
- there
- without
- agent
- agentive
- anybody
- awhile
- experiencer
- factive
- group genitive
- instrumental
- nominalize
- nominative absolute
- NP
- objective
- phrase
- pro-form
- pronominalize
- rewriterule
- trace
- verb phrase
- subject