material noun

English

Noun

material noun (plural material nouns)

1. A noun that refers to a substance.
   • 1955, Homer C. House and Susan Emolyn Harman, Descriptive English Grammar, Prentice-Hall, p.25:

     The mass noun, sometimes called a material noun, names a bulk or mass or quantity of matter or an aggregation of things united in one body: iron, pewter, flour, water, bread.

Synonyms

• mass noun

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: ainesana (fi)
• German: Stoffname (de); Nomen materiale, Materiale
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• Latin: nomen materiale