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count noun

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

(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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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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a couple of a few all both comparative comparative degree every every last few fewer fewest hardly a many many a many an many another mass noun More nary			A table, for instance, is a count noun (you can saw it off). How to Use Count and Non-Count Nouns by Jane Sumerset / Writing and Speaking community If the subject-NP is a mass noun or a count noun in the plural, quantitative indefiniteness may be marked by the partitive. Estonian clause patterns--from Finno-Ugric to standard average ... by Erelt, Mati; Metslang, Helle / Linguistica Uralica Moreover, colloquially, at least, and given the appropriate circumstances, almost any count noun can be given an appropriate collective interpretation if quantified with less. No less than four notes on less by Anderson, John B. / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies			councilor councilorship councilwoman counsel Counsel to the Crown Counselable counseling counselling counsellor counsellorship counselor counselor-at-law Counselorship count count against Count Alessandro di Cagliostro Count Alessandro Volta count down Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin Count Fleet count for count in Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy Count Maurice Maeterlinck Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf count noun count off count on count out count palatine count per minute Count Rumford count up Count-wheel countable countback countdown countenance Countenancer counter counter air operation Counter approach Counter bond Counter brace counter check counter command, control and communications counter conditioning Counter deed Counter distinction Counter drain Counter extension			Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy Count Lev Tolstoy Count Lev Tolstoy Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto Count Loris-Melikov Count Luchino Visconti Count Luchino Visconti Count Ludwig von Cobenzl Count Maeterlinck Count Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Count Manfred Count Manfred Count Matvei Ivanovich Platoff Count Maurice Maeterlinck Count Me In Count Me In Count Me Out Count Me Out Count Michael Károlyi Count Mihaly Karolyi Count Mihály Károlyi Count My Fingers Count Nesselrode Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf Count no man happy till he dies count noses Count Nosferatu Kommando count noun Count nouns Count nouns Count of Albany Count of Albany Count of Albany Count of Automatic Protection Switchovers Count of Charolais Count of Charolais Count of Charolais Count of Évreux Count of Évreux Count of Guelders Count of Guelders Count of Lucena Count of Monte Cristo Count of Monte Cristo Count of Osorno Count of Osorno Count of Ravensburg Count of Sade Count of the Breisgau Count of the Breisgau Count of Valor Count of Vimeiro count off count off count off count off count off count off

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