ABSTRACT
We may like to think of a noun (podstatné jméno, substantivum) as basically a word for a living being or thing, including places, e.g. ‘boy, dog, Charles, Lucinda, table, house, London’.
However, nouns are also words for processes, qualities, abstract ideas and the like, which we treat (in language, at least) as if they were ‘things’, e.g. ‘love, levitation, playfulness, courage, existence’.
