A noun denoting a material object rather than an abstract quality, state, or action, e.g. dog, building, tree.
the list consisted of 20 high-frequency concrete nouns
Example sentencesExamples
- When you say or hear a concrete noun, such as “apple”, what happens in your mind?
- The majority of words were concrete nouns.
- Lorissa's Italian is mostly concrete nouns and infinitives.
- Spell almost any concrete noun into that original game and a virtual object matching it would appear.
- Concrete nouns almost force the writer to use vivid verbs.