"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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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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",
          "adjective#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "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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      "wikipedia": [
        "noun adjunct"
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  "word": "noun adjunct"
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    {
      "form": "nouns adjunct",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noun adjuncts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Grammar"
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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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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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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          "word",
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        "(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."
      ],
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          "word": "attributive noun"
        },
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          "word": "noun modifier"
        },
        {
          "word": "noun premodifier"
        },
        {
          "word": "qualifying noun"
        },
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        }
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