NNPLACE Place nouns
Definition
Nouns denoting locations, spaces, or geographical features.
Detection Rules
mfte
cql[word={words} & pos="NN|NNS"]
Word list (175 items)
apartment
apartments
area
areas
bathroom
bathrooms
bay
bays
bench
benches
bookstore
bookstores
border
borders
bottom
bottoms
boundaries
boundary
building
buildings
campus
campuses
canyon
canyons
cave
caves
cities
city
class
classes
classroom
classrooms
coast
coasts
continent
continents
counties
countries
country
county
court
courts
delta
deltas
desert
deserts
district
districts
earth
earths
environment
environments
estuaries
estuary
factories
factory
farm
farms
field
fields
floor
floors
forest
forests
front
fronts
ground
grounds
habitat
habitats
hall
halls
hell
hells
hemisphere
hemispheres
hill
hills
hole
holes
horizon
horizons
interior
interiors
lake
lakes
land
lands
lecture
lectures
left
lefts
libraries
library
location
locations
market
markets
middle
middles
moon
moons
mountain
mountains
museum
museums
neighborhood
neighborhoods
neighbourhood
neighbourhoods
north
norths
ocean
oceans
office
offices
opposite
opposites
orbit
orbital
orbitals
orbits
organization
organizations
outside
outsides
parallel
parallels
park
parks
passage
passages
place
places
planet
planets
pool
pools
prison
prisons
properties
property
region
regions
residence
residences
restaurant
restaurants
river
rivers
road
roads
room
rooms
sector
sectors
shaft
shafts
shop
shops
southwest
station
stations
store
stores
stream
streams
territories
territory
top
tops
valley
valleys
village
villages
xiao_2009
biber_2006
cql[lemma={words} & pos="NN.*"]
Word list (173 items)
apartment
apartments
interior
interiors
bathroom
bathrooms
moon
moons
bay
bays
museum
museums
bench
benches
neighborhood
neighborhoods
bookstore
bookstores
opposite
opposites
border
borders
orbit
orbits
cave
caves
orbital
orbitals
continent
continents
outside
outsides
delta
deltas
parallel
parallels
desert
deserts
passage
passages
estuary
estuaries
pool
pools
factory
factories
prison
prisons
farm
farms
restaurant
restaurants
forest
forests
sector
sectors
habitat
habitats
shaft
shafts
hell
hells
shop
shops
hemisphere
hemispheres
southwest
hill
hills
station
stations
hole
holes
territory
territories
horizon
horizons
road
roads
bottom
bottoms
store
stores
boundary
boundaries
stream
streams
building
buildings
top
tops
campus
campuses
valley
valleys
canyon
canyons
village
villages
coast
coasts
city
cities
county
counties
country
countries
court
courts
earth
earths
front
fronts
environment
environments
district
districts
field
fields
floor
floors
market
markets
lake
lakes
office
offices
land
lands
organization
organizations
lecture
lectures
place
places
left
lefts
room
rooms
library
libraries
area
areas
location
locations
class
classes
middle
middles
classroom
classrooms
mountain
mountains
ground
grounds
north
norths
hall
halls
ocean
oceans
park
parks
planet
planets
property
properties
region
regions
residence
residences
river
rivers
usas
cql[lemma={words} & pos="NN|NNS"]
Word list (219 items)
Aborigine
Benelux
Bushman
Bushmen
Duchy
Dukedom
Frontier
Highland
Jordie
Jordies
Lowlanders
Market-Towns
abo
aboriginal
aboriginality
aborigine
aborigines
alcove
alien
aliens
all-terrain
alleyway
alleyways
anchorage
area
areas
backwater
backwoods
base
beach-head
birthplace
bivies
bivy
blackspot
blackspots
boardwalk
bombsite
border
borderline
borehole
boundaries
boundary
brownfield
burgher
burghers
camp
campus
campuses
catwalk
cemetery
checkpoint
circumference
cities
colonization
colonizer
colony
common
commons
compatriot
compatriots
confines
conurbation
counties
countries
countryman
countrymen
countrywoman
countrywomen
county
crannies
cranny
decolonisation
decolonization
depot
district
districts
ditch
dump
e-frontier
embankment
enclave
enclaves
entrance
entries
entry
esplanade
estate
estates
ex-colonies
ex-colony
extremities
extremity
fatherland
fora
foreground
frontier
ghetto
grave
gravel-pit
gravel-pits
graveside
graveyard
grotto
hamlet
hamlets
haunt
haunting
haunts
haven
hicksville
hide
hideaway
hides
highland
highlands
homeland
hotbed
hotspot
ice-rink
international
internationalisation
islander
islanders
junction
kibbutz
labyrinth
landfill
landmark
locale
localities
locality
location
lowlander
market-town
maze
metropolis
motherland
multinationals
municipality
national
nationals
necropolis
nook
nooks
northener
northeners
northerner
northerners
orbit
outback
outpost
outreach
outreaches
outskirts
park
parks
perimeter
piste
pitch
place
places
plaza
polities
polity
principalities
principality
prom
promenade
province
provinces
quarry
quayside
ranch
region
rendezvous
rink
rough
sanctuary
seafront
seaport
seashore
settlement
settler
settlers
shire
sideroad
site
smallholding
southerner
spa
start-line
sub-region
subdistrict
subdistricts
territories
territory
thoroughfare
town
townie
townies
townsfolk
township
townships
townspeople
towpath
utopia
venue
venues
verge
vicinity
village
villager
villagers
waterfront
waterside
yoodle
zone
zones
zoo
Normalization
Per nouns
Sources
- biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version
- xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
- usas — Rayson, Paul; Archer, Dawn; Piao, Scott; McEnery, Tony (2004) : The UCREL Semantic Analysis System