concrete noun

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. a noun denoting something material and nonabstract, as chair, house, or automobile.

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concrete noun British  

noun

1. a noun that refers to a material object, as for example horse Compare abstract noun

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• concrete noun vs. abstract noun

Example Sentences

A concrete noun refers to something visible or tangible: arc, circle, or line.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

But recycling is also a concrete noun, a word for physical stuff with a supply chain full of rivalrous buyers and sellers whose interests are often at odds.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2019

I shall have something to say by-and-by about the concrete noun, and how you should ever be struggling for it whether in prose or in verse.

From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Bu means military or martial when used as an adjective, but it is also very commonly used as a concrete noun; and in that case it may be translated as martialism.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho

But at the beginning set even higher store on the concrete noun.

From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir