Definition:
A semantic category of noun, referring to a person, animal, or other creature. Contrast with inanimate noun.
Examples and Observations:
- "Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians. Now he was eyeing a necklace with a green stone amulet."
(Peter Baker, "It's Not About Bill," The New York Times Magazine, May 31, 2009) - "Well, at the moment we've got a stockbroker, an overworked doctor, an underworked antiques shop owner, a disillusioned imports manager, and an even more disillusioned exports manager. Three sacked football managers, a fortune teller who's going to have a nervous breakdown next April, a schoolteacher who's desperate because he can't get a job, a schoolteacher who's even more desperate because he has got a job, an extremely shy vet, an overstressed car salesman and a pre-stressed concrete salesman."
(Leonard Rossiter as Reginald Perrin in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, 1976)
