1 An example of a countable noun is 'table', and an example of an uncountable noun is 'money'. 2  In 'safety barrier', the noun 'safety' is being used as a modifier. 3  In this dictionary the word 'noun' is represented by the letter n.  Examples of proper nouns in English are Joseph, Vienna and the White House.
Funeral train. Abraham Lincoln's funeral train. A funeral train is a train specially chartered in order to carry a coffin or coffins to a place of interment. Funeral trains today are often reserved for leaders and national heroes, as part of a state funeral, but in the past were sometimes the chief means of transporting coffins and mourners to graveyards.
Trostel, Scott, The Lincoln Funeral Train: The Final Journey and National Funeral for Abraham Lincoln, (Cam-Tech Publishing, 2002). Lincoln Memorial. The Journeys of Abraham Lincoln: From Springfield to Washington, 1861, as President elect; and from Washington to Springfield, 1865, (Michigan Historical Reprint Series).