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count noun
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count noun
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A noun for an object, such as chair, or for an idea, such as experience, that speakers of a language identify as referring to a single entity and that can form a plural or occur in a noun phrase construction with an indefinite article, with numerals, or with such terms as many.

count noun
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(Linguistics / Grammar) (Philosophy / Logic) Linguistics Logic 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, sortal
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Noun1.count noun - a noun that forms plurals
noun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action


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Definition Time Count nouns are things that can be divided into smaller distinct units.
Swa man mare spryc[thorn] swa him laes manna gelyfe[thorn] If count nouns are dependent on an overt determinative, the latter must be singular or plural; uncountables must depend on an overt determinative that is neither.
4) Such reclassifications of mass nouns as count nouns also occur in Standard English, of course: "What breads have you got today?
 
 
 
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