A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, some scholars believe the name " Malachi " is not a proper noun but rather an abbreviation of " messenger of YHWH ".

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

As a proper noun, Canon may also refer to:

The philosophical usage and the proper noun derive from Plato's Timaeus, written circa 360 BC, in which the demiurge is presented as the creator of the universe.

When used as a proper noun, the word, as well as its equivalents in other languages often have ethnic nationalist connotations.

" Minotaur " was originally a proper noun in reference to this mythical figure.

The construction of the Ninth Fort ( its numerical designation having stuck as a proper noun ) began in 1902 and was completed on the eve of World War I.

It is capitalized when used as a proper noun, as in ' the nature of Nature '.

The submission to Allah ( the Arabic proper noun for " The God ", One and Only ) is based on humility.

The submission to Allah ( the Arabic proper noun for " The God ", One and Only ) is based on humility.

" Unitarianism " is a proper noun and follows the same English usage as other theologies that have developed within a religious movement ( Calvinism, Anabaptism, Adventism, Wesleyanism, Lutheranism, etc .).

To avoid confusion, this article is about Unitarianism as a religious movement ( proper noun ).

If the syllable is not the first in a word, its first letter is not capitalized, even if it is a proper noun.

In modern usage, the first letter of the first part of the name, the genus, is always capitalized in writing, while that of the second part is not, even when derived from a proper noun such as the name of a person or place.

If the second part of the name is derived from a proper noun, e. g. the name of a person or place, a capital letter was used.

The capitalization variations seen with specific designators reveals an instance of this problem occurring in natural languages, where the proper noun / common noun distinction ( and its complications ) must be dealt with.

This can be seen to hold in the case of the noun house: no proper part of a house, for example the bathroom, or the entrance door, is itself a house.

* La Station, proper noun for the LGBTI Center of the région Alsace in France

In British English, the word following the colon is in lower case unless it is a proper noun or an acronym, or is normally capitalized for some other reason.

In many European languages the colon is usually followed by a lower-case letter ( unless the upper case is required for other reasons, such as for a proper noun ).

Semicolons are followed by a lower case letter, unless that letter is the first letter of a proper noun like the word I or Paris.

A proper noun is a noun that in its primary application refers to a unique entity, such as London, Jupiter, Sarah, or Microsoft, as distinguished from a common noun, which usually refers to a class of entities ( cities, planets, persons, corporations ), or non-unique instances of a certain class ( a city, another planet, these persons, our corporation ).

As Daniels used the word, an abugida contrasts with a syllabary, where letters with shared consonants or vowels show no particular resemblance to each another, and with an alphabet proper, where independent letters are used to denote both consonants and vowels.

However it is in its proper sense, in which it indicates national character and the subjection due to that character, that the word is more important.

Currently, the word " Bohemians " is sometimes used when speaking about persons from Bohemia of non-Czech or mixed ethnic origin, especially before the year 1918, when the Kingdom of Bohemia ceased to exist ; also when there is need to distinguish between inhabitants of the western part ( Bohemia proper ) of Czechia, and the eastern ( Moravia ) or the north-eastern part ( Silesia ).

Since the Apostolic Age, the use of the definite article before the word Christ and its development into a proper name signifies its identification with Jesus as the promised Jewish messiah.

The use of the definite article before the word " Christ " and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messiah of the Jews who fulfilled all the Messianic predictions in a fuller and a higher sense than had been given them by the Rabbis.

Often the word takes the definite article and is capitalized — " the Divinity " — as though it were a proper name or definitive honorific.

One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.

The word kosher has become English vernacular, a colloquialism meaning proper, legitimate, genuine, fair, or acceptable.

The correct way to say karaoke in English, even though it is not an English word, is " karah " " o-kay " -- saying it as " carrie-okie ," although common, is not considered the proper pronunciation.

Christian tradition, influenced by this presentation, came to use the Latin word for " morning star ", lucifer, as a proper name (" Lucifer ") for Satan as he was before his fall.

The same understanding is shown in Christian translations of the passage, which in English generally use " morning star " rather than treating the word as a proper name, " Lucifer ".

Their proper Greek name should be Leontids ( Λεοντίδαι, Leontídai ), but the word was initially constructed as a Greek / Latin hybrid and it is being used since.

" A proper name a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about " writes John Stuart Mill in A System of Logic ( 1. ii.

Darwin challenged the validity of Galton's experiment, giving his reasons in an article published in ' Nature ' where he wrote: " Now, in the chapter on Pangenesis in my Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, I have not said one word about the blood, or about any fluid proper to any circulating system.

The text is addressed to “ the elect lady and her children ,” and closes with the words, “ The children of thy elect sister greet thee .” However, some translators prefer to transliterate the Greek word for " lady " with the proper name Kyria.

There is neither an academic nor an international legal consensus regarding the proper definition of the word " terrorism ".

The Count explains that along with proper word usage, an ideal courtier must have a proper sense of style and flow to their words.

The most he can remember is: at the time, he needed to come up with a proper name for it, and he considered the word " Viz " a very easy word to write / remember, as it consisted of three letters which are easily made with straight lines.

" Older translations use the word " man " to translate the word ’ adam employed in the Hebrew language, the same word used as the proper name of the first man married to the first woman, Eve.