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

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

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

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