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count noun

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count noun
a noun, as apple, table, or birthday, that typically refers to a countable thing and that in English can be used in both the singular and the plural and can be preceded by the indefinite article a or an and by numerals. Cf. mass noun.
[1950-55]

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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