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 usually defined as being a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. Nouns can either be common or proper nouns. A common noun is a generic name given to a person, place, thing or, idea. For example, lake, street, dog, and cat are all common nouns. Common nouns are not capitalized unless they begin a sentence.