material noun

English

Examples
cotton, paper, water, wood, sulphur

Noun

material noun (plural material nouns)

1. A noun that refers to a substance.

   Synonym: mass noun

   • 1955, Homer C. House, Susan Emolyn Harman, Descriptive English Grammar, Prentice-Hall, page 25:

     The mass noun, sometimes called a material noun, names a bulk or mass or quantity of matter or an aggregation of things united in one body: iron, pewter, flour, water, bread.

Translations

a noun that refers to a substance

• Finnish: ainesana (fi)
• German: Stoffname (de); Nomen materiale, Materiale
• Hungarian: anyagnév (hu)
• Latin: nomen materiale