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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How does concrete-noun compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• concrete noun vs. abstract noun

Example Sentences

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

On metaphors: “It strikes me that a shopping cart, in general, is an ‘easy’ icon to design in that it’s a concrete noun where you don’t need to reach for a metaphor to symbolize it.”

From New York Times

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 Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg