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Meaning of "uncountable noun" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

uncountable noun  [ˌʌnkaʊntəbəlˈnaʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Uncountable noun is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNCOUNTABLE NOUN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mass noun

In linguistics, a mass noun or uncountable noun is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete subsets. Non-count nouns are distinguished from count nouns. Given that different languages have different grammatical features, the actual test for which nouns are mass nouns may vary between languages. In English, mass nouns are characterized by the fact that they cannot be directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement, and that they cannot combine with an indefinite article. Thus, the mass noun "water" is quantified as "20 litres of water" while the count noun "chair" is quantified as "20 chairs". However, both mass and count nouns can be quantified in relative terms without unit specification. Some mass nouns can be used in English in the plural to mean "more than one instance of a certain sort of entity"—for example, "Many cleaning agents today are technically not soaps, but detergents." In such cases they no longer play the role of mass nouns, but they are treated as count nouns.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNCOUNTABLE NOUN


adnoun
ˈædnaʊn
breakdown
ˈbreɪkˌdaʊn
Bridgetown
ˈbrɪdʒˌtaʊn
brown
braʊn
clown
klaʊn
countdown
ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn
crown
kraʊn
down
daʊn
downtown
ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn
Georgetown
ˈdʒɔːdʒˌtaʊn
gown
ɡaʊn
noun
naʊn
out-of-town
ˌaʊtəvˈtaʊn
pronoun
ˈprəʊˌnaʊn
Provincetown
ˈprɒvɪnsˌtaʊn
renown
rɪˈnaʊn
showdown
ˈʃəʊˌdaʊn
shutdown
ˈʃʌtˌdaʊn
takedown
ˈteɪkdaʊn
town
taʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

uncorrectable
uncorrected
uncorrelated
uncorroborated
uncorrupt
uncorrupted
uncorseted
uncostly
uncounselled
uncountable
uncounted
uncouple
uncoupler
uncourageous
uncourteous
uncourtliness
uncourtly
uncouth
uncouthly
uncouthness

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

abstract noun
collective noun
common noun
concrete noun
count noun
countable noun
disjunctive pronoun
indefinite pronoun
mass noun
personal pronoun
possessive pronoun
proper noun
reflexive pronoun
relative pronoun
singular noun
subject pronoun
verbal noun

Synonyms and antonyms of uncountable noun in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «uncountable noun» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

Find out the translation of uncountable noun to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of uncountable noun from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «uncountable noun» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不可数名词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sustantivo incontable
570 millions of speakers

English

uncountable noun
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेशुमार संज्ञा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اسما لا يحصى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несчетное существительное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

substantivo incontável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অগণ্য বিশেষ্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

substantif indénombrable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

kata nama tidak boleh dikira
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zählbare Nomina
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不可算名詞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

셀 수없는 명사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tembung sing ora kaetung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

danh từ không đếm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Uncountable பெயர்ச்சொல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बिनशर्त संज्ञा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sayılamayan isim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sostantivo uncountable
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niezliczona rzeczownik
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

незліченну іменник
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

substantiv Ajută
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αμέτρητα ουσιαστικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontelbare naamwoord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oräkneligt substantiv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utellelig substantiv
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of uncountable noun

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNCOUNTABLE NOUN»

The term «uncountable noun» is normally little used and occupies the 139.631 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNCOUNTABLE NOUN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «uncountable noun» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «uncountable noun» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about uncountable noun

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNCOUNTABLE NOUN»

Discover the use of uncountable noun in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to uncountable noun and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Let's Work with English
Study the words in this table: COUNTABLE NOUNS SINCULAR FORM I PLURAL FORM UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS MASS FORM famine famines starvation TASK 12 0 A common error is to use an uncountable noun in the plural form: ...
Hazel Simmons-McDonald, 2000
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Advanced English Grammar: A Linguistic Approach
The noun bark in (2b) only occurs in the singular and with singular verb agreement; it is an uncountable noun. Another way of characterizing this distinction makes use of semantic rather than formal criteria: while the referent of an uncountable ...
Ilse Depraetere, Chad Langford, 2012
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Objective First Student's Book with Answers with CD-ROM
Uncountable noun meaning the hair on her head. b There's a hair in this sandwich! Countable noun. Coffee grows in Brazil. Uncountable noun for the product. Would you like to come roundfor a coffee? Countable noun meaning 'a cup of ...
Annette Capel, Wendy Sharp, 2014
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Objective First Student's Book without Answers with CD-ROM
Uncountable noun meaning the hair on her head. b There's a hair in this sandwich! Countable noun. Coffee grows in Brazil. Uncountable noun for the product. Would you like to come roundfor a coffee? Countable noun meaning 'a cup of ...
Annette Capel, Wendy Sharp, 2014
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english grammar for toefl (rev)
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS 52-1 Uncountable noun adalah benda yang tidak dapat dihitung. Jika suatu benda tidak dapat dihitung: a. Tidak menggunakan indefinite article di depannya. - 1 need some water. bukan I need a water. - We still ...
Dhany R.Cyssco
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Total Preparation for the TOEIC. Erreur de Graphie "grammr" ...
You cannot put the number one in front of an uncountable noun, and so you cannot put the article a or an in front of an uncountable noun either. WRONG: All he wants out of life is a peace and a happiness. RlGHT: All he wants out of life is [ .
Hubert Silly, 2004
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Grammar Builder Level 3
3B The money on the table is yours. / / GRAMMAR POINTS- We use a or an only before countable nouns. a / an + countable noun [7] a / an + uncountable noun \T\ examples: I do not take sugar in my tea. He buys gold as a form of investment.
Adibah Amin, Rosemary Eravelly, Farida J Ibrahim, 2005
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English Grammar :Easier Way
The meaning of the Uncountable Noun will change if we use it as a Countable Noun e.g. I like your work. Here the Uncountable Noun work means 'job'. I like Milton's works. Here the Countable Noun works means the books written by Milton.
Shabnam Gupta, 2006
9
Grammar and the Chinese ESL Learner
with plural noun phrases and was rarely used with pronoun phrases, proper noun phrases, and uncountable noun phrases, the correct use of Ø was associated only with plural noun phrases and uncountable noun phrases. Across different ...
Yong Lang
10
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
The Top 1 0 Uncountable Noun Mistakes An uncountable noun is a noun such as furniture, music, health or happiness that has no plural form and is not a singular noun. Because uncountable nouns have no singular or plural form, they cannot ...
‎2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNCOUNTABLE NOUN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term uncountable noun is used in the context of the following news items.
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Google says I suffer from…
Observe this interesting string of words combining an uncountable noun “advice” preceded by an adjective “futile” (useless, ineffective) modified by the adverb ... «Buenos Aires Herald, Jul 15»
2
Myfanwy Jones' Leap review: A subtle novel about absences and grief
Water is described as "the uncountable noun". In a bar "the audience mills, turning out the coarse flour of human intercourse". Leap by Myfanwy Jones. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
3
Know your English — January 27, 2015
But the expression 'a great deal of' is usually followed by an uncountable noun, not a countable one. You can say, he has received 'a number of suggestions' or ... «The Hindu, Jan 15»
4
Q and A on Grammar, fixed expressions, Nigerian English and …
“Amount” is used for uncountable nouns (such as “the amount of water”) while “number” is used for countable nouns (such as “the number of people”). «Daily Trust, Dec 14»
5
Know your English
“The word 'toast' is an uncountable noun. You don't say four toasts. Instead you say, four slices of toast.” “I see. My father has four slices of toast for breakfast.”. «The Hindu, Oct 14»
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The Queen of Grammar is here to correct your English
The movement this year turns the spotlight on grammar rules focusing on tenses, subject-verb agreement, prepositions and countable and uncountable nouns. «Marketing Interactive, Jun 14»
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Vinyl or vinyls? On eve of Record Store Day, collectors can't seem to …
First, the blog's co-founder Mark Liberman tried to discern if “vinyl” qualified as a mass noun, sometimes called an uncountable noun. These nouns — such as ... «The Saratogian, Apr 14»
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Non-native English speakers are creating new dialect of the language
Another common feature of Eurish is the plural uncountable noun. In native-speaker English, uncountable, or mass, nouns are singular. I often hear non-native ... «BDlive, Apr 14»
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Eurish has developed a grammar of its own
Another common feature of Eurish is the plural uncountable noun. In native-speaker English, uncountable, or mass, nouns are singular. I often hear non-native ... «Financial Times, Apr 14»
10
Know your English — How is the word 'kowtow' pronounced?
can be treated as countable or uncountable nouns. It is therefore, possible to say, 'I have earache/toothache' or 'I have an earache/a toothache'. Americans, on ... «The Hindu, Nov 13»

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