compound noun
noun [ C ] language specialized uk/ˌkɒm.paʊnd ˈnaʊn/ us/ˌkɑːm.paʊnd ˈnaʊn/
复合名词
a noun that is made up of two or more different words, for example, "cake shop", "French fries", "high-flyer", or "schoolteacher"
The glossary should include compound nouns like "nuclear chemistry" or "law of equivalent proportions". 术语表应包括 "核化学 "或 "等比例法 "等复合名词。
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- Compound nouns, like snowflake, contain a head (-flake ) and a modifying element (snow- ).
- By avoiding the need for a preposition, compound nouns can help you write more concisely: "running shoes" instead of "shoes for running".
- In Romance languages, compound nouns are used much less frequently than in Germanic languages.
- In this paper she discusses stress in compound nouns.