Geisel adopted his Dr. Seuss pen name during his university studies at Dartmouth College and the University of Oxford. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and various other publications.
Confidence votes 94.8K. A general noun is a word for a non-specific person, place, or thing. Examples of general nouns: A specific noun is a word for a specific person, place or thing. Examples: 1  parent. 2  city. 3  apple. 4  father.
A noun is a word that identifies a person, animal, place, thing, or idea. Here, weâll take a closer look at what makes a noun a noun, and weâll provide some noun examples, along with some advice for using nouns in your sentences. A noun is a part of speech that denotes a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.