1. The substitution of a personal name for a common noun to designate a member of a group or class, as in calling a traitor a . Benedict Arnold...

2. contains a common noun identifying some geographical feature contained within a geographic name, such as valley, mount etc.

3. As a result, their distribution features waver between common noun and localizer.

4. The most common noun used in the world is the word "friend", but the most difficult person to get is a friend.

5. This is an abstract noun, but it is used as a common noun here.

6. Notice this is an abstract noun, but it is used as a common noun here.

7. There are two parts in the appendixes: evolution tree derivation of the Sino-Tibetan language system and the common noun classifiers in Thai.

8. I have discovered that when the XP is a common noun or an adjective, it disallows a quantifier occurring before a head noun of a DE construction.