| 单词 | class noun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclass noun class noun n. Grammar a noun that denotes a class of objects; esp. one denoting any individual member of a class; a count noun (frequently opposed to material noun). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > other specific types of noun increaser1612 regulara1637 energizer1751 agent noun1782 nomen actionis1820 segolate1831 class noun1849 patrial1854 nomen agentis1859 metaplast1864 agent word1879 post-genitive1922 conversion-noun1928 noun adjective1930 head noun1933 relatum1933 actant1967 class name1994 1849 J. Brown Eng. Gram. II. 136 Girard was the Cræsus of Philadelphia. Cræsus here is made to constitute a class. Hence his name is a class noun. 1892 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. I. 54 Common nouns..are subdivided into class-nouns, such as man, and material-nouns, such as iron. 1939 H. E. Palmer Gram. Spoken Eng. (ed. 2) i. 30 Every word in the dictionary is potentially a class-noun, for we can speak of ifs and buts. 1985 R. Hickey in J. Fisiak Hist. Semantics & Hist. Word-formation 217 The input for agency derivation may come from the lexical class noun or verb. 1995 J. W. M. Verhaar Toward Ref. Gram. Tok Pisin xx. 340 Such plurals take on class noun characteristics: waters is then, rather like ‘waves’, or ‘stretches of water’. < as lemmas |
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