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How to pronounce “noun”

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Pronunciation guide for noun

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of noun with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Languageto being used as a noun for "butt" in memes like the song,
Definition summary: (grammar, strictly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

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Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language

to being used as a noun for "butt" in memes like the song,

[Noun]
(grammar, strictly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
(grammar, now rare, loosely) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
(computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
[Verb]
(transitive) To convert a word to a noun.

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