| 单词 | abstract noun |
| 释义 | abstract noun noun[C] uk/ˌæb.strækt ˈnaʊn/us/ˌæb.strækt ˈnaʊn/anounthat refers to a thing that does notexistas amaterialobject: 抽象名词"Happiness", "honesty", and "liberty" areabstractnouns.“幸福”、“诚实”和“自由”都是抽象名词。 Compare concrete noun Linguistics: parts of speech
Examplesofabstract nounabstract noun Marxism was at one time not anabstractnoun, but now it is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Concrete nouns were transferred with greater frequency than abstract nouns and action verbs were transferred with greater frequency than state or function verbs. From theCambridge English Corpus Hence, any superordinates that may have referred to the abstract nouns on our list were most likely beyond the reach of our study's youngest participants. From theCambridge English Corpus Age was significant in only half of the categories - reference group, generic nouns, temporal, abstract, and derived abstract nouns. From theCambridge English Corpus Austen's prose also repeatedly contains a relatively small number of frequently-used words, mainly epithets and abstract nouns indicating personal qualitiesqualities, that is, of character and temperament rather than outward appearance. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.I'll summarize just one of her analyses, that ofabstractnounsuffixes, to give a sense of how she approaches the data. From theCambridge English Corpus The purpose of this section is both to outline the main tenets of this approach, and to indicate how it will be developed to account for theabstractnountime. From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, the semantics of the differentabstractnounsuffixes is compared in search of synonymy (co-functionality) and possible gaps in the system which might explain (predict?) future developments. From theCambridge English Corpus I believe that the participle is always better than theabstractnoun. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me give an example of a perfectabstractnounthat people bandy about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I always suspect arguments which depend upon qualifying anabstractnounby an abstract adjective. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Thisabstractnounis formed from the adjective "trinus" (three each, threefold, triple), as the word "unitas" is the abstract noun formed from "unus" (one). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The latter word is theabstractnounderived from "var", which is an adjective meaning existing or present. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Apodicticity or apodixis is the correspondingabstractnoun, referring to logical certainty. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The feminineabstractnoun"ai/arti" derives from "ar-", to allot, to grant. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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