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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 |
bayonets | a grove | object, weapon |
beans | a hill | food |
bears | a maul, pack, sloth or sleuth | animal, mammal |
beauties | a bevy, a harmony | people |
beavers | a colony, family or lodge | animal, mammal |
bees | a hive, rabble, swarm | animal, insect |
beggar | a guild | people |
bells | a peal | object |
bills | a wad | object |
birds | a flock | animal, bird |
birds, aviary | a volery | animal, bird |
birds, migrating | a rush | animal, bird |
birds, small | a dissimulation | animal, bird |
bishops | a sea, bench or psalter | profession |
bison | a herd, a gang | animal, mammal |
bitterns | a pretence, sedge or siege | animal, bird |
blackbirds | a cloud, flock, grind, merl | animal, bird |
bloodhounds | a sute | animal, mammal |
blossoms | a flourish | flora |
boars | a herd or singular | animal, mammal |
boars, wild | a sounder | animal, mammal |
books | a library, pile or compendium | object |
bowlers | a keg | profession |
bowls | a nest | object |
boys | a blush, leer, passel or rascal | people |
bread | a batch | food |
buffalo | a gang, herd or obstinacy | animal, mammal |
bullfinches | a bellowing, lowing | animal, bird |
bullocks | a drove | animal, mammal |
burritos | a pace | food |
butterflies | a flight, flutter, kaleidoscope | animal, insect |
buzzards | a wake, kettle, pack | animal, bird |
cadets | a corps | profession |
camels | a caravan, train | animal, mammal |
candidates | a slate | people |
canons | a dignity, chapter | profession |
canyons | a maze | geographical feature |
capons | a mews, muse | animal, bird |
cardinals | a conclave, radiance | profession |
cards | a deck, hand or pack | object |
caribou | a herd | animal, mammal |
carpenters | a pound | profession |
cars | a fleet, mayhem or stack | object, transport |
caterpillars | an army | animal, insect |
cats | a clowder, cluster, clutter, destruction, kindle, litter | animal, mammal |
cats and dogs | a rain | animal, mammal |
cattle | a drift, drove, herd, team | animal, mammal |
cattle pair | a yoke | animal, mammal |
cavalry | a troop, squadron | profession |
cellists | a parenthesis | profession |
censors | a gaggle | profession |
chairs | a fold | object |
chamois | a herd | animal, mammal |
cheerleaders | an array | profession |
cheetahs | a coalition | animal, mammal |
chess players | a board or brood | profession |
chickens | a brood, clutch, flock | animal, mammal |
children | an ingratitude | people |
chimpanzees | a troop, whoop, family or cartload | animal, mammal |
chinchillas | a colony, herd | animal, mammal |
churchgoers | a congregation | people |
circuits | a bank | object |
clams | a bed | animal, mollusc |
clerks | a school or rookery | profession |
clouds | a soufflé | meteorological feature |
clowns | a shudder, an alley or pratfall | profession |
cobblers | a cutting, drunken ship or load | profession |
cobras | a quiver | animal, snake |
cockatoos | a chattering, cluttering or family | animal, bird |
cockles | a bed | animal, mollusc |
cockroaches | an intrusion, swarm | animal, insect |
cod | a lap or school | animal, fish |
coins | a roll or roleau | object |
comedians | a gaggle or riot | profession |
communists | a colhose | people |
computers | a cluster | object |
computers, linked | a network | object |
condiments | an accompaniment | food |
convicts | a chain or gang | people |
cooks | a temperance or hastiness | profession |
corgis | a consort | animal, mammal |
cormorants | a flight or gulp | animal, bird |
corn | a sheaf | flora, food |
coughs | a chattering | process |
courtesans | a harem | profession |
cowboys | a saunter | profession |
cows | a drift, drove, flink, herd or mob | animal, mammal |
coyotes | a band, pack, rout or run | animal, mammal |
cranes | a herd, sedge, siege or flock | animal, bird |
crickets | an orchestra | animal,insect |
crocodiles | a bask, congregation, float or nest | animal, reptile |
crows | a cauldron, caucus, congress, cowardice, hover, murder, muster, parcel or storytelling | animal, bird |
cubs | a litter | animal, mammal |
curates | a charge | profession |
curlews | a head, herd, salon or wedge | animal, bird |
curs | a cowardice | animal, mammal |
cymbals | a sign | object |
dachshunds | a moxie | animal,mammal |
dancers | a troupe | profession |
dancers female | a float | profession |
dancers male | a flight | profession |
deans | a decanter or decorum | profession |
debtors | a split | people |
debutants | a delirium | people |
decorators | a tantrum | profession |
deer | a bunch, herd, parcel, mob or rangale | animal, mammal |
deer roe | a bevy | animal, mammal |
deer two or three | a brace or leash | animal, mammal |
dentists | an amalgam, brace or wince | profession |
dermatologists | a rash | profession |
designers | a set or subtlety | profession |
diagnosticians | a guess | profession |
dice | a luck | object |
dictators | a tyranny | people |
dictionaries | a meaning | object |
dieters | a pot | people |
dinosaurs | a herd or pack | animal, dinosour |
directions | a vane | process |
directors | a gild, drove or board | profession |
divorcees | a desperation | people |
doctors | a doctrine or dose | profession |
documents | a wealth or dossier | object |
dodos | an extinction | animal, bird |
dogfish | a troop | animal, fish |
dogs | a kennel or pack | animal, mammal |
dollars | a fistful | object |
dolphins | a herd, pod, school or team | animal, mammal |
dominoes | a falling | object |
donkeys | a herd, drove or pace | animal, mammal |
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