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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 |