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 kind of word (see part of speech) that is usually the name of something such as a person, place, thing, quality, or idea. In English, nouns can be singular or plural. Nouns often need a word called an article or determiner (like the or that).