"attributive noun" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: attributive nouns [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} attributive noun (plural attributive nouns)
  1. (grammar) Synonym of noun adjunct (“a noun that modifies another noun attributively”) Categories (topical): Grammar Synonyms: noun adjunct, noun modifier, noun premodifier, qualifying noun, apposite noun, noun adjunct [synonym, synonym-of] Translations (a noun that modifies another noun attributively): 歸屬名詞 (Chinese Mandarin), 归属名词 (guīshǔ míngcí) (Chinese Mandarin), substantiivimäärite (Finnish), substantiivimääre (Finnish), nom épithète [masculine] (French), főnévi jelző (Hungarian), определи́тельное существи́тельное (opredelítelʹnoje suščestvítelʹnoje) [neuter] (Russian), атрибути́вное существи́тельное (atributívnoje suščestvítelʹnoje) [neuter] (Russian), tamlayan (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-attributive_noun-en-noun-IcM-L9dt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'a noun that modifies another noun attributively': 80 20
  2. (grammar, when referring to a language other than English) A noun denoting bearer of a quality or an attribute of a subject, in reference to the lexical morpheme from which it is derived. Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-attributive_noun-en-noun-1kaS3vZC Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

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