"noun adjunct" meaning in English

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      "form": "nouns adjunct",
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    },
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      "form": "noun adjuncts",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Kenneth G. Wilson, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, page 300:",
          "text": "Noun adjuncts form the first elements of hundreds of compound nouns in American English (bird house, ball field, name brand, and fieldhouse); […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A noun that modifies another noun (thus functioning adjectivally) and that is optional; it may be a single word or a compound noun or noun phrase."
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        [
          "adjectivally",
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        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
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        [
          "compound noun",
          "open compound"
        ],
        [
          "noun phrase",
          "noun phrase"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A noun that modifies another noun (thus functioning adjectivally) and that is optional; it may be a single word or a compound noun or noun phrase."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "attributive noun"
        },
        {
          "word": "noun modifier"
        },
        {
          "word": "noun premodifier"
        },
        {
          "word": "qualifying noun"
        },
        {
          "word": "apposite noun"
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        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
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        "noun adjunct"
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  "word": "noun adjunct"
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      "form": "nouns adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "noun adjuncts",
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        "plural"
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        "A noun that modifies another noun (thus functioning adjectivally) and that is optional; it may be a single word or a compound noun or noun phrase."
      ],
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      ],
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        },
        {
          "word": "noun modifier"
        },
        {
          "word": "noun premodifier"
        },
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        },
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