material noun

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English

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Examples

cotton, paper, water, wood, sulphur

Noun

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material noun (plural material nouns)

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

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