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A collective of Collective Nouns

This is not an exhaustive list of collective nouns and we are happy to include any suggestions we have missed, but it is fairly comprehensive. If you want to amaze your friends with your superior language knowledge or simply answer a pub quiz question this may be the place for you. 

subject
nouns
Category
Catholics
a mass
people
DIYers
a bodge
people
Elvis impersonators
a wiggle
profession
Englishmen
a pound
people
Episcopalians
a government
people
Frenchmen
a peck
people
Germans
a gross
people
Irishmen
a pint
people
Italians
an explosion
people
Jews
a minyan
People
Mormons
a book
people
Nazis
a jungle
people
Northerners
a freeze
people
Pacificans
a troop
people
Pentecostals
a glossolalia
people
Presbyterians
a membership
people
Press Officers
an Alan Rockford
people
Quakers
a meeting
people
Scots
a disworship, fifth or clan
people
Sirens
a wail
people, fictional
Swiss
a watch
people
TARDISes
a manor
object
Texans
a mob
people
aardvarks
an armoury
animal, mammal
academics
a faculty
profession
acrobats
a troupe
profession
actors
a cast, company, condescension, cry, queue, stage
profession
actresses
an entrance
profession
adders
a sum
animal, snake
aircraft
a flight, wing
object, trasnport
aircraft, fighter
a circus, wing
object, weapon
albatrosses
a rookery, weight
animal, bird
alpha computers
a cluster
object
ammunition
a cache
object, weapon
angel fish
a company
animal, fish
angels
a choir, chorus, flight, host, pinhead
people, fictional
anglers
a catch
people
antelope
a herd, cluster, tribe
animal, mammal
ants
an army, a bike, colony, swarm
animal, insect
apes
a shrewdness, troop
animal, mammal
apples
a bushel
fruit
archer fish
a company
animal, fish
arrows
a quiver
object, weapon
artillery
a troop, battery
object, weapon
artistes (acrobats, dancers, singers)
a troupe
people
artists (painters)
a colony
profession
asses
a coffle, drove, herd, pace
animal, mammal
asteroids
a belt
object
athletes
a team
profession
auks
a raft, colony, flock
animal, bird
avocets
a colony
animal, bird
baboons
a congress, flange, rumpus, troupe
animal, mammal
bacteria
a colony (a culture if grown in a laboratory)
organism
badgers
a cete, clan, colony
animal, mammal
bakers
an aroma, a tabernacle
profession
bananas
a hand, bunch
fruit
bankers
a wunch
profession
bankers, Scottish
a knot
profession
baptists
an immersion
people
barbels
a shoal
animal, fish
barbers
a babble
profession
barbers, military
a crew
profession
barflies
a buzz
people
barons
a thought
people
barracuda
a battery
animal, fish
barristers
a boast, wiggery
profession
barstaff
a disappearance
profession
bass
a shoal, fleet
animal, fish
bastards
a shower
people
bats
a colony, cloud, cauldron
animal, mammal