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  • adjective Attributive form of proper noun, noun.

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Examples

  • Nonetheless, notwithstanding that Canadians ascribe patriotism to each other often enough and claim “true patriot love” in the national anthem, capital-P proper-noun “Patriots” refers most naturally to Americans in Canadian ears.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Play Soccer Like It’s 1799 2010

  • Nonetheless, notwithstanding that Canadians ascribe patriotism to each other often enough and claim “true patriot love” in the national anthem, capital-P proper-noun “Patriots” refers most naturally to Americans in Canadian ears.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Play Soccer Like It’s 1799 2010

  • The full suite of linguistic tools includes proper-noun recognition, morphological analysis, and large annotated lexicons (e.g., military, political, chemical, business, medical).

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • His beef was so good that in the early 1980s Alice Waters made it the first proper-noun meat on the menu at her Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse.

    Guilty Carnivore 2008

  • His beef was so good that in the early 1980s Alice Waters made it the first proper-noun meat on the menu at her Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse.

    Guilty Carnivore 2008

  • His beef was so good that in the early 1980s Alice Waters made it the first proper-noun meat on the menu at her Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse.

    Guilty Carnivore 2008

  • For comets, capitalize only the proper-noun element of the name: Halley’s comet.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • For comets, capitalize only the proper-noun element of the name: Halley’s comet.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • THE CRADLE"IT WAS easily big enough to have acquired proper-noun status in their minds'stood in the center of a square five times larger than the one where they had come upon the blasted statue, and when she got a really good look at it, Susannah realized how old and gray and fundamentally grungy the rest of Lud really was.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

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