Definitions for mass noun
mass noun

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1. mass nounnoun

   a noun that does not form plurals

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1. mass nounnoun

   A noun that normally cannot be counted.

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1. Mass noun

   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. Given that different languages have different grammatical features, the actual test for which nouns are mass nouns may vary between languages. In English, mass nouns are characterized by the impossibility of being directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement and by the impossibility of being combined with an indefinite article (a or an). Thus, the mass noun "water" is quantified as "20 litres of water" while the count noun "chair" is quantified as "20 chairs". However, both mass and count nouns can be quantified in relative terms without unit specification (e.g., "so much water", "so many chairs"). Mass nouns have no concept of singular and plural, although in English they take singular verb forms. However, many mass nouns in English can be converted to count nouns, which can then be used in the plural to denote (for instance) more than one instance or variety of a certain sort of entity – for example, "Many cleaning agents today are technically not soaps [i.e. types of soap], but detergents," or "I drank about three beers [i.e. bottles or glasses of beer]". Some nouns can be used indifferently as mass or count nouns, e.g., three cabbages or three heads of cabbage; three ropes or three lengths of rope. Some have different senses as mass and count nouns: paper is a mass noun as a material (three reams of paper, one sheet of paper), but a count noun as a unit of writing ("the students passed in their papers").

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1. mass noun

   A mass noun, also known as an uncountable noun, is a noun that represents something that cannot be counted because it is seen as a whole or mass. This includes things that are too vast or abstract to be counted (like "space" or "information"), materials (like "wood" or "water"), and collective words for certain things (like "furniture" or "luggage"). Unlike countable nouns, mass nouns are not used with a or an or with plural forms.

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1. Mass noun

   In linguistics, a mass noun is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete subsets. Non-count nouns are distinguished from count nouns. Given that different languages have different grammatical features, the actual test for which nouns are mass nouns may vary between languages. In English, mass nouns are characterized by the fact that they cannot be directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement, and that they cannot combine with an indefinite article. Thus, the mass noun "water" is quantified as "20 litres of water" while the count noun "chair" is quantified as "20 chairs". However, mass nouns can be quantified in relative terms without unit specification. Some mass nouns can be used in English in the plural to mean "more than one instance of a certain sort of entity"—for example, "Many cleaning agents today are technically not soaps, but detergents." In such cases they no longer play the role of mass nouns, but they are treated as count nouns. Some nouns have both a mass sense and a count sense.

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How to pronounce mass noun?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say mass noun in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mass noun in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mass noun in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mass noun
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mass_Noun
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Noun
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mass noun