noun adjunct

English

Noun

Examples
chicken soup ("chicken" modifies the noun "soup") school bus maintenance ("school bus" modifies the noun "maintenance")

noun adjunct (plural nouns adjunct or noun adjuncts)

1. (grammar) A noun that modifies another noun (thus functioning adjectivally) and that is optional; it may be a single word or a compound noun or noun phrase.

   Synonyms: attributive noun, noun modifier, noun premodifier, qualifying noun, apposite noun

   • 1993, Kenneth G. Wilson, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, page 300:

     Noun adjuncts form the first elements of hundreds of compound nouns in American English (bird house, ball field, name brand, and fieldhouse); […]

Translations

noun adjunct — see attributive noun