material noun

material noun

English

Examples
cotton, paper, water, wood, sulphur

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

Latin: nomen materiale