Concrete Nouns

Concrete nouns are people, places, or things that we observe using the five senses. Nouns that we hear, see, taste, touch, or smell belong to this category of nouns. We can subcategorize concrete nouns into 2 types of nouns: proper and common.

When looking at a sentence it is easy to pick out the concrete noun example. For example, She pets the zebra.

A zebra is something that you can touch, see, and hear. It is a common concrete noun.

Below find examples of nouns that are concrete.

Concrete Noun Examples

• apple
• bridge
• car
• couch
• composer
• dog
• elephant
• fish
• giraffe
• house
• igloo
• jaw
• knife
• lamb
• milk
• notebook
• ocean
• pen
• rainbow
• shoulder
• teen
• uncle
• villa
• wallet
• X-ray
• yacht
• zebra