Look up count noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun that can be modified by a quantity...

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...

articles). Examples of count nouns are chair, nose, and occasion. Mass nouns or uncountable (non-count) nouns differ from count nouns in precisely that respect:...

agreement with collective count nouns differently. For example, users of British English generally accept that collective nouns take either singular or...

most frequently used in English. Common nouns can be further divided into count and non-count nouns. A count noun can take a number as its determiner (e...

are used with mass nouns (uncountable nouns), and in some cases also with count nouns. For instance, in English, mud is a mass noun and thus one cannot...

In languages that have classifiers, they are often used when the noun is being counted, that is, when it appears with a numeral. In such languages, a phrase...

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent...

be used as count nouns and pluralized but cannot be inflected vis-a-vis a given grammatical person. In English, gerunds used as verbal nouns comprise the...

alternatively called count-classifier and mass-classifier, since the first type can only meaningfully be used with count nouns, while the second is used...

linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related...

non-count noun." Such nouns may refer to a unique singular object (essentially a proper noun), but more often than not, they refer to uncountable nouns,...

A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during...

syntax of an utterance with a noun provides children with cues to whether the noun is a mass noun or count noun. Mass nouns are used for objects whose components...

case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or...

A bare noun is a noun that is used without a surface determiner or quantifier. In natural languages, the distribution of bare nouns is subject to various...

A descriptive statistic (in the count noun sense) is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features from a collection of information...

refer to nouns, adjectives, etc. A phonological manifestation of a category value (for example, a word ending that marks "number" on a noun) is sometimes...

A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...

nouns (names) and common nouns. Common nouns are in turn divided into concrete and abstract nouns, and grammatically into count nouns and mass nouns....

category of number. The plural of a noun typically denotes a quantity greater than the default quantity represented by that noun. This default quantity is most...

function in the sentence, by way of some inflection. Declensions may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and determiners to indicate number (e.g...

In textual criticism (as is the case with Biblical scholarship), the count noun recension is a family of manuscripts sharing similar traits; for example...

role of a noun in a sentence. Although certain nouns do have a permanent trait of agency (agent noun: runner, kicker, etc.), an agent noun is not necessarily...

grinder is the idea that in some languages, most count nouns can be used as if they were mass nouns, which causes a slight change in their meaning. The...

that fewer and not less should be used with count nouns, and that less should be used only with mass nouns. This distinction was first tentatively suggested...

semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context (definite noun phrases) and those...

and its predicate is sometimes called a nexus. A predicative nominal is a noun phrase: in the sentence George III is the king of England, the phrase the...

A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common...

word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally adjectives are considered...