100 Examples of Collective Nouns
100 Examples of Collective Nouns |
Collective nouns are terms for singular entities that consist of several entities, such as people, places, animals, things, and ideas. Collective nouns include, for instance, the words flock, crowd, and staff. Numerous collective nouns are used.
Collective Nouns
Here are 100 examples of collective nouns:
- a bale of cotton
- a basket of fruit
- a batch of bread
- a battery of guns
- a bevy of ladies
- a bevy of ladies
- a block of flats
- a board of directors
- a body of men
- a body of men
- a book of notes
- a bouquet of flowers
- a bowl of rice
- a bunch of crocks
- a bunch of keys
- a bundle of sticks
- a caravan of gypsies
- a catalogue of prices
- a chest of drawers
- a choir of singers
- a class of students
- a cloud of dust
- a cluster of coconuts
- a collection of coins
- A colony of badgers
- a comb of bananas
- a company of actors
- a company of actors
- a crew of sailors
- a crowd of people
- a fleet of ships
- a forest of trees
- a gaggle of geese
- a galaxy of stars
- a gang of prisoners
- a group of dancers
- a group of islands
- a hail of bullets
- a hand of bananas
- a harvest of wheat
- a haul of fish
- a heap of rubbish
- a hedge of bushes
- a herd of cattle
- a hive of bees
- a horde of savages
- a host of angels
- a library of books
- a line of kings
- a mob of rioters
- a nest of mice
- a pack of thieves
- a pack of wolves
- a party of friends
- a patrol of policemen
- a plague of locusts
- a posse of policemen
- a pride of lions
- a quiver of arrows
- a range of mountains
- a ream of paper
- a reel of film
- a regiment of soldiers
- a school of whales
- a set of clubs
- a sheaf of grain
- a shower of rain
- a stack of wood
- a staff of employees
- a string of horses
- a string of pearls
- a stud of horses
- a swarm of bees
- a swarm of bees
- a team of players
- a tribe of natives
- a troop of scouts
- a wad of notes
- a zoo of wild animals
- an anthology of poems
- an outfit of clothes
- sloth of bears
These are just some examples of collective nouns, and there are many more in the English language.