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What (who) is mass noun - definition
Mass noun
NOUN OR NOUN PHRASE WHOSE QUANTITY IS INDISCRETE AND HAS NO INNATE SINGULARITY OR PLURALITY.
Uncountable noun; Non-count noun; Non-countable noun; Noncount noun; Mass nouns
In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements. Non-count nouns are distinguished from count nouns.
mass noun
NOUN OR NOUN PHRASE WHOSE QUANTITY IS INDISCRETE AND HAS NO INNATE SINGULARITY OR PLURALITY.
Uncountable noun; Non-count noun; Non-countable noun; Noncount noun; Mass nouns
(mass nouns)
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A mass noun is a noun such as 'wine' which is usually uncount but is used with 'a' or 'an' or used in the plural when it refers to types of that substance, as in 'a range of Australian wines'.
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mass noun
NOUN OR NOUN PHRASE WHOSE QUANTITY IS INDISCRETE AND HAS NO INNATE SINGULARITY OR PLURALITY.
Uncountable noun; Non-count noun; Non-countable noun; Noncount noun; Mass nouns
¦ noun Grammar a noun denoting something which cannot be counted, in English usually a noun which lacks a plural in ordinary usage and is not used with the indefinite article, e.g. luggage, happiness. Contrasted with count noun.
