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concrete noun
noun
- a noun denoting something material and nonabstract, as chair, house, or automobile.
concrete noun
noun
- a noun that refers to a material object, as for example horse Compare abstract noun
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Example Sentences
But recycling is also a concrete noun, a word for physical stuff with a supply chain full of rivalrous buyers and sellers whose interests are often at odds.
On metaphors: “It strikes me that a shopping cart, in general, is an ‘easy’ icon to design in that it’s a concrete noun where you don’t need to reach for a metaphor to symbolize it.”
Bu means military or martial when used as an adjective, but it is also very commonly used as a concrete noun; and in that case it may be translated as martialism.
I shall have something to say by-and-by about the concrete noun, and how you should ever be struggling for it whether in prose or in verse.
The first virtue, the touchstone of a masculine style, is its use of the active verb and the concrete noun.
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