Abstract and concrete nouns [duplicate]

The words that express the tangible and visible things of our experience, such as sand or sea, are all nouns, as are those expressing intangibles such as love or idealism.

Also, some nouns, like field or grain, can be imagined both as tangible and intangible.

People, generally, refer to these nouns with the terms concrete (tangible) and abstract (intangible).

That being said, my question is, is there an English dictionary that—as well as identifying a word as a noun—additionally identifies the noun as either “abstract” or “concrete”? Are there any other resources that do this?

In English, "concrete" and "abstract" are not grammatical classifications. This is unlike (for example) "masculine" and "feminine" in French, and "uncountable" and "countable" in English. For both of these cases, there are nouns which one might think are masculine (or countable) from their meaning, but actually are feminine (or uncountable). For example, you can ask why "peas" are countable but "rice" is uncountable. Or in French, why is it "le cigar" but "la pipe". There's no real reason; it's just grammar.

However, anybody can sort nouns into "concrete" and "abstract" based on their definitions, and nobody will be able to say that they did it incorrectly. Since there isn't a definitive classification, dictionaries don't give it.

Your question is really predicated on the assumption that the abstract / concrete partition of nouns is accepted as axiomatic.

That there is still a lot of analysis to be done is evident from the fact that there are only about 7 distinct Google hits for the term 'second order noun'. However, from one of them is the following:

Four orders of entities:

Lyons (1977...) presents a three-way typology of entities, which refines the traditional distinction between concrete and abstract nouns...

Entities of the first order are physical objects, i.e. persons, animals and things...

Entities of the second order are events, processes, states-of-affairs etc...[arrival, error...]

Entities of the third order are such abstract entities as propositions [beliefs, ideas...]

[and Hengeveld postulates a fourth order:]

Entities of the fourth order are speech acts [question, command...]

( http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=l7UWMZq7FGIC&pg=PR13&lpg=PR13&dq=%22second+order+noun%22&source=bl&ots=bm-uk-g8Dh&sig=ilf32ju-4MT2pVAlBz5qUcuyyMk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZdAfUszWOuir7AaJ4oCgCg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22second%20order%20noun%22&f=false )

I still wouldn't be happy to include 'hole', 'silence'... in any of these categories.

See Is "12:30" (the time of day) an abstract noun? .

It would be difficult to provide a list, as some words can be tangible and intangible, dependent on the context.

e.g.

The chair presided over the meeting.
The chair is in the kitchen.

In the first sentence, the chair refers to someones position or title, which is intangible.
In the second, the chair is a physical object that you sit upon, which makes it tangible.

English is a difficult language 1, which is why sites like this exist. Unfortunately, I do not think a list/book/dictionary that has the information you desire exists in an easy format. A reference dictionary like the OED could help, but practice is the best teacher.