| 单词 | mass-word |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmass-word mass-word n. Grammar now rare = mass noun n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > uncountable or mass noun material noun1892 mass-word1914 uncountable1924 mass noun1933 singulare tantum1940 quantifiable1957 1914 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. II. v. 115 Words which represent ‘uncountables’..are here called mass-words; they may be either material..such as silver, quicksilver, water, butter,..or else immaterial, such as leisure, music, traffic, progress, [etc.]. 1935 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 34 429 Masswords (like gold, embers, knowledge). 1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 133 Mass-word, Jespersen's term for words denoting concepts, properties or things which ordinarily cannot be separated into distinct component units. < as lemmas |
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