countable nouns

countable nouns: countable nouns

also called count nouns, are nouns that form plurals, e.g. ship, crisis, fellow-traveller, kindness (= a kind act). They differ from uncountable (or non-count or uncount) nouns, which do not form plurals, e.g. adolescence, heating, richness, warfare; and from mass nouns, which form plurals only in the sense of ‘a type of…’ or ‘a quantity of…’, e.g. bread, medicine, wine. Some words are countable in one meaning and uncountable in another, e.g. ice, iron, paper.

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countable noun — [[t]ka͟ʊntəb(ə)l na͟ʊn[/t]] countable nouns N COUNT A countable noun is the same as a count noun … English dictionary
countable — [ˈkaʊntəb(ə)l] adj linguistics a countable noun is a noun that has a plural and can be used after ‘a when it is singular. Countable nouns are marked ‘[C] in this dictionary Ant: uncountable … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
countable — adj. Countable is used with these nouns: ↑noun … Collocations dictionary
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count nouns — see countable nouns … Modern English usage
non-count nouns — see countable nouns … Modern English usage
uncountable nouns — see countable nouns … Modern English usage
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