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A noun is a name – of a place, an object, a person, an animal, a concept, of anything:

PLACES	street, home, Germany, Paris, heaven
OBJECTS	plate, chair, tree, chamber pot, air
PERSONS	Einstein, Michael Jackson, Caroline
ANIMALS	pony, pig, wolfhound, chimpanzee
CONCEPTS	option, bad temper, ability, direction

We also recognise types of nouns. All nouns are either proper nouns – that is, names that are specific or unique:

Marilyn Monroe, Saturday, The Rake’s Progress, Mercedes, Brooklyn Bridge, Easter

or common nouns, which describe groups or members of groups, rather than individuals, or which broadly identify something:

boy, motor cars, tea, hair, darkness, opinions, anger, idea

You’ll notice that proper nouns start with capital letters, and that common nouns don’t. Common nouns are also divided into concrete and abstract nouns, count and non-count nouns, singular, plural and collective nouns, and these are all discussed in Naming Things: Nouns, on page 64.