'Word' as a noun.

[Rollercoaster1]

What type of noun is 'word'?

 

[teechar]

Take a look at the explanation in the following link, and see if you can work out the answer.

https://www.lexico.com/grammar/types-of-noun

 

[Rollercoaster1]

Take a look at the explanation in the following link, and see if you can work out the answer.

https://www.lexico.com/grammar/types-of-noun

Is it also an abstract noun?

 

[Rover_KE]

What do you mean by 'also'? You haven't told us what type of noun you think it is yet.

 

[Rollercoaster1]

What do you mean by 'also'? You haven't told us what type of noun you think it is yet.

It's a common, and a countable noun.

 

[teechar]

Right, but you don't need the comma, the "and or the second "a" in that sentence. You can just say:
It's a countable common noun.

 

[Tdol]

If you say the word is, meaning what people are saying, it has no plural- the word is that the minister is going to resign.

 

[Rollercoaster1]

If you say the word is, meaning what people are saying, it has no plural- the word is that the minister is going to resign.

I have been waiting for an answer to my question in post 3.

 

[teechar]

Not that I know of. Do you have a particular use of it that you may suspect is abstract?

 

[Rollercoaster1]

Not that I know of. Do you have a particular use of it that you may suspect is abstract?

Word of honor.

 

[teechar]

That expression does convey an abstract meaning, but it's the whole expression, not just the the first word (word) in it. In other words, this and a few others (a word of advice, a word of caution, etc) are set expressions which should be considered as a whole, not analysed by as individual words. In any case, even in those expressions, it can be argued that "word" is a reference to what a person utters - a common noun.