material noun
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Noun
material noun (plural material nouns)
- 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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