- a noun that can be qualified by the indefinite article, and may be used in the plural, as telephone and thing but not airs and graces or bravery
Compare mass noun
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2019
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2019
count′ noun′,
Grammara noun, as apple, table, or birthday, that typically refers to a countable thing and that in English can be used in both the singular and the plural and can be preceded by the indefinite article a or an and by numerals. Cf. mass noun.
- 1950–55
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