| 词汇 | abstract-noun |
| 释义 | abstract noun noun[ C ] uk /ˌæb.strækt ˈnaʊn/ us /ˌæb.strækt ˈnaʊn/ a noun that refers to a thing that does not exist as a material object: 抽象名词 "Happiness", "honesty", and "liberty" are abstract nouns.“幸福”、“诚实”和“自由”都是抽象名词。 Compare concrete noun Linguistics: parts of speech adj adjectival adjectivally adjunct adv adverb adverbial article common noun concrete noun conj conjunction connective count noun countable noun definite article determiner part of speech prep relative pronoun Examples of abstract nounabstract noun Marxism was at one time not an abstractnoun, but now it is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open 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. 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. Age was significant in only half of the categories - reference group, generic nouns, temporal, abstract, and derived abstract nouns. 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 of abstractnoun suffixes, to give a sense of how she approaches the data. 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 the abstractnoun time. Finally, the semantics of the different abstractnoun suffixes is compared in search of synonymy (co-functionality) and possible gaps in the system which might explain (predict?) future developments. I believe that the participle is always better than the abstractnoun. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me give an example of a perfect abstractnoun that people bandy about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I always suspect arguments which depend upon qualifying an abstractnoun by an abstract adjective. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This abstractnoun is 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 the abstractnoun derived 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 corresponding abstractnoun, referring to logical certainty. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The feminine abstractnoun "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. See all examples of abstract noun 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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