It can be a noun or adjective.
Example as a noun: That is a fine individual.
Example as an adjective: We each have individualrights.
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Yes, the word "steak" is a common noun. It refers to a type of meat that is typically cut from cattle and does not specify a particular brand or individual item. Common nouns name general items or concepts, as opposed to proper nouns, which refer to specific names or titles.
calendar = noun and verb heavens = noun, plural archaeologist = noun Winnebago = noun, proper written mathematics = adjective + noun the hickory fort = article + noun + noun (the noun 'hickory' used to describe the noun 'fort' is functioning as a noun adjunct)
The word terror is a noun. It is mostly an uncountable noun.
The term 'Saturday afternoon' is a noun phrase, the noun 'afternoon' described by the noun 'Saturday'.A noun functioning as an adjective to describe another noun is called an attributive noun or a noun adjunct.The noun 'Saturday' is a proper noun, the name of a specific day of the week. A proper noun is always capitalized.The noun 'afternoon' is a common noun, a general word for a period of any day.A noun phrase is a group of words based on a noun that functions as a unit in a sentence in any position that can be filled by a noun. Examples:Saturday afternoon is the class picnic. (subject of the sentence)We're going to the picnic on Saturday afternoon. (object of the preposition 'on')
The term 'wall designs' functions as a compound noun but is not a true compound noun, a noun made up of two or more words to form a word with a meaning of its own. The term is made up of the noun 'wall', an attributive noun (a noun that describes another noun) and the plural noun 'designs'.