Concrete Noun
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A Concrete Noun is a Lexical Noun that Denotes a specific Physical Entity.
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- Example(s):
- “Eiffel Tower”.
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_concrete_nouns
- Counter-Example(s):
- an Abstract Noun, such as: “bravery”, “homonym”, “algorithm”.
- a Class Noun, such as: “people” or “person”.
- a Pronoun, such as: “I”.
- “Escherichia Coli O121”, because it refers to billions of entities (?).
- See: Noun.
References
2009
- Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concrete_noun
- concrete noun (plural concrete nouns)
- 1. (grammar) A noun that denotes a tangible or material person, animal, place, substance, thing, or phenomenon that physically exists (or could exist).
- Antonyms: abstract noun
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_concrete_nouns