Nouns are one of most important topics in English grammar. Noun is a naming word, used in most sentence we use in daily life. Nouns are of many types including proper noun, common noun, collective noun, and many more. One important type is the common noun. If you've ever said, "the dog", "a country", or "a day", you've already used common nouns! This article will help you understand what common nouns are, and you'll explore 1000+ examples of most common nouns in English.
What are Common Nouns?
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| Common Nouns |
A common noun that refers to a general name of a person, place, thing, or idea. It does not involve to a specific person or entity. Common nouns are used to refer general items rather than unique ones.
Eg. - dog, man, woman, girl, city, country, etc.
1000+ Most Common Nouns in English
A
ability, actor, address, adult, age, air, airport, alarm, animal, answer, apple, area, arm, army, art, attack, attempt, attention, author, award
B
baby, back, bag, ball, band, bank, bar, base, basket, bath, battle, beach, bear, beauty, bed, bee, bell, belt, bench, benefit, bicycle, bird, birth, bit, bite, blade, blood, boat, body, bone, book, boot, border, bottle, bottom, bowl, box, boy, brain, branch, bread, break, bridge, brother, brush, building, bulb, bus, business, button, buyer
C
cake, camera, camp, capital, car, card, care, carpet, cart, cat, cause, ceiling, cell, chain, chair, chance, change, charge, chart, check, cheese, chest, chicken, child, chin, church, circle, city, class, clock, cloud, club, coat, coffee, cold, collar, college, color, comb, comedy, comfort, command, committee, company, competition, complaint, computer, condition, connection, control, cook, copper, copy, corn, cost, cotton, cough, country, cover, cow, crack, credit, crime, crop, cross, crowd, cup, cupboard, customer, cut, cycle
D
damage, dance, danger, daughter, day, death, decision, degree, design, desk, detail, development, device, diamond, diet, difference, difficulty, dinner, direction, dirt, disease, dish, distance, distribution, doctor, dog, door, dot, doubt, drawer, dress, drink, drive, drop, drum, dust, duty
E
ear, earth, edge, education, effect, egg, election, electricity, employee, employer, end, engine, energy, entrance, error, event, example, exchange, experience, expert, eye
F
face, fact, factory, family, farm, farmer, fashion, father, fear, feather, feeling, field, fight, finger, fire, fish, flag, flame, floor, flower, fly, food, foot, force, forest, fork, form, fortune, frame, friend, fruit, fuel, fun, function, furniture, future
G
game, garden, gas, gate, gear, girl, glass, glove, goal, goat, gold, good, government, grain, grass, ground, group, growth, guest, guide, gun
H
hair, hammer, hand, handle, hat, hate, head, health, heart, heat, help, hill, history, hobby, hole, holiday, home, honey, hook, hope, horse, hospital, host, hour, house, human, humor, hunger, hunter
I
ice, idea, image, imagination, impact, importance, impression, improvement, income, increase, industry, influence, information, insect, inside, instrument, insurance, interest, iron, island, issue
J
jacket, jam, jar, jelly, jewel, job, journey, joy, judge, juice, jump, jungle
K
kangaroo, kettle, key, kick, kid, kind, king, kiss, knee, knife, knot, knowledge
L
ladder, lady, lake, lamp, land, language, laugh, law, lawyer, lead, leaf, learning, leather, leg, letter, level, library, lift, light, line, lion, lip, liquid, list, lock, look, loss, love, luck, lunch
M
machine, magazine, mail, man, manager, map, market, mask, match, material, meal, meat, meeting, memory, message, metal, method, middle, milk, mind, mine, minute, mirror, mistake, mixture, money, month, moon, morning, mother, mountain, mouse, mouth, move, music, muscle, museum
N
name, nation, nature, neck, need, needle, neighbor, nerve, net, news, night, noise, nose, note, number, nut
O
object, occasion, ocean, offer, office, oil, onion, opinion, opportunity, orange, order, organization, oven, owner
P
page, pain, paint, paper, parcel, park, part, partner, party, passenger, past, path, patient, pattern, payment, peace, pen, pencil, people, pepper, performance, period, person, pet, phase, phone, photo, piano, picture, piece, pig, pin, pipe, place, plane, plant, plastic, plate, platform, play, player, pleasure, pocket, point, police, policy, pool, population, position, pot, potato, power, price, print, problem, process, product, professor, profit, program, property, proposal, protest, pull, punishment, purpose, push
Q
quality, quantity, quarter, queen, question, queue, quiet, quilt
R
race, radio, rain, range, rate, rat, reaction, reading, reason, receipt, record, relation, religion, repair, report, request, respect, rest, result, rice, ring, river, road, rock, role, roll, roof, room, root, rope, rose, rule, run, ruler, rumor
S
sack, sail, salad, salt, sand, sauce, scale, school, science, scissors, screw, sea, seat, secretary, seed, selection, self, sense, servant, service, sex, shade, shadow, shake, shape, sheep, sheet, shelf, ship, shirt, shoe, shop, shoulder, show, side, sign, silence, silver, sister, size, skill, skin, skirt, sky, sleep, slice, slip, slope, smoke, snail, snake, snow, soap, society, sock, soil, soldier, solution, son, song, sort, sound, soup, space, spade, speech, speed, spell, spider, spoon, sport, spring, square, stage, stamp, star, start, statement, station, steam, steel, step, stick, stomach, stone, stop, store, storm, story, stove, street, strength, structure, student, study, substance, sugar, suggestion, suit, summer, sun, support, surface, surprise, sweater, sweet, swim, system
T
table, tail, talk, tank, taste, tax, teaching, team, tear, temper, temperature, temple, test, text, theory, thing, thought, thread, throat, ticket, tie, time, tin, title, toe, toilet, tomato, tongue, tool, tooth, top, touch, town, toy, track, trade, train, trainer, transport, tray, tree, trial, trip, trouble, truck, trust, truth, tube, turn, type
U
umbrella, uncle, unit, university, use, user, utensil
V
vacation, value, van, variety, vegetable, vehicle, verse, vessel, victory, video, view, village, violence, voice, volume, vote, vowel
W
wall, war, wash, waste, watch, water, wave, way, weather, week, weight, wheel, whip, whistle, white, wife, will, wind, window, wine, wing, winter, wire, wish, woman, wood, wool, word, work, worker, world, worm, wound, writing
X
x-ray, xylophone
Y
yard, year, yellow, yesterday, yoga, youth
Z
zebra, zero, zoo