Concrete Noun

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.

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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

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