A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object, e.g. truth, danger, happiness.
the website contains considerably more abstract nouns than hard facts
Example sentencesExamples
Like most abstract nouns, management means everything and anything associated with organizing people and their activities.
There will be confusion if we continue to use the word "morality" because it is an abstract noun.
Abstract nouns are all liable to be hijacked and twisted, by people of all political ideas.
All the stories were written specifically for this collection - all have abstract nouns as titles and all are thematically linked.
He never kept aloof or lost the common touch; never used long words or abstract nouns.
As European legal reasoning developed, abstract nouns multiplied.
When God is being referred to as a subsistent thing, we use concrete nouns; but to express God's simpleness we use abstract nouns.
The most difficult task for the mothers was to explain the concept of abstract nouns in Korean.
It is Brutus who is the most instantly recognisable modern figure in his use of abstract nouns to justify political ends.
It's only because I did Latin and Greek that I know what an abstract noun is; no-one else in school was going to tell me.
Liberty is a ponderous and not-to-be-used-lightly abstract noun.
This mannered floridity of diction, accompanied by the persistent capitalization of abstract nouns, was to become a distinguishing and disfiguring feature of Bulwer's prose.
Definition of abstract noun in US English:
abstract noun
noun
A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
the website contains considerably more abstract nouns than hard facts
Example sentencesExamples
It is Brutus who is the most instantly recognisable modern figure in his use of abstract nouns to justify political ends.
There will be confusion if we continue to use the word "morality" because it is an abstract noun.
He never kept aloof or lost the common touch; never used long words or abstract nouns.
The most difficult task for the mothers was to explain the concept of abstract nouns in Korean.
When God is being referred to as a subsistent thing, we use concrete nouns; but to express God's simpleness we use abstract nouns.
Like most abstract nouns, management means everything and anything associated with organizing people and their activities.
Liberty is a ponderous and not-to-be-used-lightly abstract noun.
This mannered floridity of diction, accompanied by the persistent capitalization of abstract nouns, was to become a distinguishing and disfiguring feature of Bulwer's prose.
All the stories were written specifically for this collection - all have abstract nouns as titles and all are thematically linked.
As European legal reasoning developed, abstract nouns multiplied.
Abstract nouns are all liable to be hijacked and twisted, by people of all political ideas.
It's only because I did Latin and Greek that I know what an abstract noun is; no-one else in school was going to tell me.