The difference between Gentile and Noun

When used as nouns, gentile means a non-jewish person, whereas noun means a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea.


Gentile is also adjective with the meaning: non-jewish.

Noun is also verb with the meaning: to convert a word to a noun.

check bellow for the other definitions of Gentile and Noun

  1. Gentile as an adjective:

    Non-Jewish.

  2. Gentile as an adjective:

    Heathen, pagan.

  3. Gentile as an adjective:

    Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national.

  4. Gentile as an adjective:

    Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.

  5. Gentile as an adjective (grammar):

    Of a part of speech such as an adjective, noun or verb: relating to a particular city, nation or country.

  1. Gentile as a noun:

    A non-Jewish person.

  2. Gentile as a noun (grammar):

    A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.

  1. Noun as a noun (grammar, narrow sense):

    A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

  2. Noun as a noun (grammar, now rare, broad sense):

    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.

  1. Noun as a verb (transitive):

    To convert a word to a noun.

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