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mass noun
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mass noun
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A noun, such as sand, oil, or honesty, that denotes a substance or concept indivisible into countable units and is preceded in English indefinite constructions by modifiers such as some or much rather than a or one.
mass noun
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(Linguistics) a noun that refers to an extended substance rather than to each of a set of isolable objects, as, for example, water as opposed to lake. In English when used indefinitely they are characteristically preceded by some rather than a or an; they do not have normal plural forms Compare count noun
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Noun1.mass noun - a noun that does not form plurals
noun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action


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