0 a noun that is made up of two or more different words, for example, "cake shop", "French fries", "high-flyer", or "schoolteacher":
The glossary should include compound nouns like "nuclear chemistry" or "law of equivalent proportions".
Compound nouns, like snowflake, contain a head (-flake ) and a modifying element (snow- ).
By avoiding the need for a preposition, compound nouns can help you write more concisely: "running shoes" instead of "shoes for running".
In Romance languages, compound nouns are used much less frequently than in Germanic languages.
