abstract noun

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæbˌstɹækt naʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæbˌstɹækt naʊn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

abstract noun (plural abstract nouns)

1. (grammar) A noun that denotes an idea, emotion, feeling, quality, generalization, representation or other abstract or intangible concept, as opposed to a concrete item, or a physical object.

   Synonym: nomen abstractum

   Antonym: concrete noun

Translations

noun that denotes an abstract concept

• Afar: qellitaamih seecena
• Arabic: اِسْم مَعْنًى (ism maʕnan)
• Bulgarian: абстрактно съществително n (abstraktno sǎštestvitelno)
• Catalan: nom abstracte m
• Cebuano: lunap
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抽象名詞 / 抽象名词 (zh) (chōuxiàng míngcí)

• Danish: abstrakt (da) n
• Dutch: abstract substantief n, abstractum (nl) n
• Finnish: abstrakti substantiivi
• French: nom abstrait (fr) m
• Galician: nome abstracto (gl) m, substantivo abstracto (gl) m
• German: Abstraktum (de) n, abstraktes Substantiv n, Begriffswort n
• Greek: αφηρημένο ουσιαστικό n (afiriméno ousiastikó)
• Hungarian: elvont főnév
• Irish: ainmfhocal teibí m, ainm teibí m
• Italian: nome astratto m
• Japanese: 抽象名詞 (ja) (ちゅうしょうめいし, chūshōmeishi)
• Korean: 추상명사 (ko) (chusangmyeongsa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: abstrakt (no) n

• Persian: اسم معنی (fa)
• Portuguese: substantivo abstrato (pt) m
• Russian: абстра́ктное существи́тельное (ru) n (abstráktnoje suščestvítelʹnoje)
• Sanskrit: भाववाचक (sa) n (bhāvavācaka)
• Spanish: sustantivo abstracto (es) m, nombre abstracto (es) m
• Swedish: abstrakt substantiv (sv) n
• Tagalog: pangngalang basal
• Telugu: గుణవిశేష్యము (guṇaviśēṣyamu)
• Thai: อาการนาม (th) (aa-gaa-rá-naam)
• Turkish: soyut ad (tr), soyut isim (tr)
• Ukrainian: абстра́ктний іме́нник m (abstráktnyj iménnyk)
• Welsh: enw haniaethol m

References

• “abstract noun”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.