Is meal countable or uncountable noun?

Answer 1

The noun 'meal' is a count noun as a word for the food eaten at one time at regular intervals in a day. The plural noun is meals.

Example: They provide two meals a day at my school.

The noun 'meal' is an uncountable noun as a word for the ground form of edible grains; a word for a substance.

Units of uncountable nouns for substances are expressed using a partitive noun; for example, a bag of meal or a cup of meal.

Example: I bought two pounds of meal to make cookies for the party.

The plural form of an uncountable noun for a substance (meals) is a word for types of or kinds ofthat substance.

Example: The meals called for in this recipe are oat and wheat.

Answer 2

A countable noun is a noun that has a singular and a plural form. Most nouns are countable nouns. Some examples are:

• apple - apples
• boy - boys
• child - children
• desk - desks
• egg - eggs

An uncountable noun (or mass noun) is noun for a substance or concept that is indivisible into countable units; a word that normally has only a singular or only a plural form. Examples of types of uncountable nouns are:

• abstract concepts: courage, honesty, knowledge, scorn, homework, cooperation;
• activities and sports: football, hockey, knitting, shopping, fishing, polo;
• academic subjects: Biology, folklore, linguistics, history, physics, math;
• food and drink substances: bread, flour, corn, fish, rice, ginger, water, tea;
• other substances/materials: air, oil, cement, cotton, powder, soil, hydrogen;
• aggregate nouns: furniture, equipment, news, communications, police, goods;
• binary nouns: pants, pajamas, shorts, tweezers, scissors, binoculars;
• miscellaneous: news, barracks, measles, weather, electricity.

Answer 3

The noun food and some of the words for food, such as rice, sugar, butter, or meat are words for substances, uncountable nouns. Multiples of substance nouns are expressed in quantities such as some food, a lot of food; a little sugar, a cup of sugar, a bowl of rice, a stick of butter, etc.

The plural form for substance nouns for food are reserved for 'types of' or 'kinds of', for example:

• Some foods that contain Vitamin C are Oranges, guavas, kiwis, green and red sweet peppers.
• They serve a variety of rices, long grain, wild, brown, and basmatti.
• The teas that I prefer are green tea and white tea.

Answer 4

Dinner can definitely be countable-- "a dinner" refers to a special meal that one eats during a formal event: I attended a formal dinner with the governor last night. The president has three holiday dinners scheduled this month.

But it can also be part of the expression "to have dinner"-- in which case, it is not countable: She had dinner with her sister yesterday. (Some people use the word "eat" instead of "have," but the rule is the same-- in this expression, 'dinner' is not countable. I will eat dinner at home tonight.)

Answer 5

The word lunch can be a countable or an uncountable noun, depending on the meaning and use of the word.

Examples for lunch as a countable noun:

Tom will take one lunch to work today, but he will take four lunches to work tomorrow.

Mary made five lunches for her children.

Examples for lunch as an uncountable noun:

Lunch will be served at 11:30 am.

The chef will make soup and Sandwiches for lunch.

Answer 6

Restaurant is a countable noun; you can have more than one. For example: There are six restaurants on Main Street.

Answer 7

The noun 'lunch' is a countable noun. The plural form is lunches.

Answer 8

Countable