material noun

English

Examples
cotton, paper, water, wood, sulphur

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.

Translations

a noun that refers to a substance

Finnish: ainesana (fi)
German: Stoffname (de); Nomen materiale, Materiale
Hungarian: anyagnév (hu)
Latin: nomen materiale

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