What are Compound Nouns?
Compound nouns are words that are made up of two or more separate words that are used together to form a single noun. These words can be joined together in different ways, such as with a hyphen or without any punctuation at all.
For example, “ice cream” is a compound noun made up of the two words “ice” and “cream,” while “toothbrush” is a compound noun made up of the two words “tooth” and “brush.” Other examples of compound nouns include “bookshelf,” “sunflower,” “baseball,” “lighthouse,” and “raincoat.”
Compound nouns can be formed by combining two nouns, a noun and an adjective, a verb and a noun, or a preposition and a noun. The way in which the words are combined often gives insight into the meaning of the compound noun.
Compound Nouns List in English
Here are 100 compound nouns in English.
- Airplane
- Bathroom
- Blackboard
- Bookshelf
- Breakfast
- Campground
- Cardboard
- Classmate
- Cookbook
- Cupcake
- Daylight
- Doghouse
- Doorbell
- Earthquake
- Eyeglasses
- Farmhouse
- Firefighter
- Football
- Footprint
- Freeway
- Friendship
- Gasoline
- Girlfriend
- Grasshopper
- Hairbrush
- Handshake
- Headache
- Heartbeat
- Highway
- Homework
- Honeymoon
- Hotdog
- Houseplant
- Jellyfish
- Keyboard
- Kitchenware
- Ladybug
- Lamppost
- Landmark
- Lifeguard
- Lipstick
- Mailbox
- Meatball
- Moonlight
- Newsstand
- Nighttime
- Notebook
- Pancake
- Password
- Peppermint
- Playground
- Postcard
- Raincoat
- Rainbow
- Razorblade
- Riverbank
- Sailboat
- Sandcastle
- Sandwich
- Seashell
- Shipyard
- Shoebox
- Shopping cart
- Sideboard
- Skyscraper
- Snowflake
- Spacecraft
- Spotlight
- Starlight
- Steamboat
- Strawberry
- Sunflower
- Sunglasses
- Supermarket
- Swimming pool
- Toothbrush
- Toothpaste
- Train station
- Treehouse
- Tugboat
- Turntable
- Vineyard
- Waterfall
- Watermelon
- Weatherman
- Website
- Wedding cake
- Well-being
- Whirlpool
- Whiteboard
- Windmill
- Wineglass
- Witchcraft
- Woodpecker
- Workday
- Wristwatch
- Yearbook
- Yellowtail
- Yogurt
- Zipper
