concrete noun

noun

, Grammar.

1. a noun denoting something material and nonabstract, as chair, house, or automobile.

concrete noun

noun

1. a noun that refers to a material object, as for example horse Compare abstract noun

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.

From Slate

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.”

From New York Times

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

The first virtue, the touchstone of a masculine style, is its use of the active verb and the concrete noun.

From Project Gutenberg