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material noun

material noun noun: a mass noun that refers to a substance.

Noun

material noun (plural material nouns)

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

Forms of material noun

pluralmaterial nouns

Questions about material noun

What does material noun mean?
Material noun means a mass noun that refers to a substance.
What part of speech is material noun?
Material noun is a noun.
What is the plural of material noun?
The plural of material noun is material nouns.

Words near material noun in the dictionary

  1. material heresy
  2. material implication
  3. material implications
  4. material logic
  5. material nonimplication
  6. material noun
  7. material nouns
  8. material science
  9. material sciences
  10. material support
  11. material witness

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