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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A noun that denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit.

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  1. n. grammar A noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals. Examples: a school of fish, a pride of lions.

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  1. n. a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. noun of assemblage
  1. noun of multitude

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  1. noun

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. committee
  2. clergy
  3. company
  1. enemy
  2. family
  3. public
  1. collective
  2. quintillion
  3. gentlefolk
  1. feer
  2. horse
  3. million
  1. people
  2. benthos
  3. ware

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Words tagged ‘collective noun’

  1. a badelynge of ducks
  2. a band of jays
  3. a barren of mules
  4. a batch of bread
  5. a battery of barracuda
  6. a bavin of brush
  7. a bazaar of guillemots
  8. a bed of clams
  9. a bellowing of bullfinches
  10. a belt of asteroids
  11. a bench of bishops
  12. a bevy of beauties
  13. a bevy of quails
  14. a bevy of roe deer
  15. a bike of hornets
  16. a blessing of unicorns
  17. a bloat of hippopotami
  18. a blush of boys
  19. a bouquet of pheasants
  20. a brace of ducks
  21. a brace of geldings
  22. a brood of chickens
  23. a brood of grouse
  24. a brood of hens
  25. a brouhaha of choughs
  26. a bury of conies
  27. a business of ferrets
  28. a cadge of peregrines
  29. a caravan of camels
  30. a carillon of bells
  31. a cast of falcons
  32. a cete of badgers
  33. a charm of finches
  34. a charm of goldfinches
  35. a charm of hummingbirds
  36. a chattering of choughs
  37. a chattering of starlings
  38. a choir of angels
  39. a chorus of angels
  40. a clan of hyenas
  41. a cloud of seafowl
  42. a cloud of starlings
  43. a clowder of cats
  44. a cluster of antelopes
  45. a cluster of bomblets
  46. a cluster of cats
  47. a cluster of porcupine fish
  48. a clutter of cats
  49. a coalition of cheetahs
  50. a coil of teals
  51. a colony of ants
  52. a colony of bacteria
  53. a colony of badgers
  54. a colony of beavers
  55. a colony of chinchillas
  56. a colony of gulls
  57. a colony of ibises
  58. a colony of penguins
  59. a colony of rabbits
  60. a colony of vultures
  1. a committee of vultures
  2. a company of actors
  3. a company of parrots
  4. a company of widgeon
  5. a congregation of churchgoers
  6. a congregation of magpies
  7. a congregation of plovers
  8. a congress of baboons
  9. a conspiracy of ravens
  10. a convocation of eagles
  11. a coterie of prairie dogs
  12. a couple of impalas
  13. a covert of coots
  14. a covey of grouse
  15. a covey of partridges
  16. a covey of ptarmigans
  17. a cowardice of curs
  18. a crash of rhinoceroses
  19. a crevice of bats
  20. a crowd of redwings
  21. a culture of bacteria
  22. a deceit of lapwings
  23. a deck of cards
  24. a den of snakes
  25. a descent of woodpeckers
  26. a desert of lapwings
  27. a destruction of cats
  28. a destruction of wildcats
  29. a dole of doves
  30. a dopping of goosanders
  31. a dopping of sheldrakes
  32. a dray of squirrels
  33. a drift of hogs
  34. a drove of asses
  35. a drove of bullocks
  36. a drove of cattle
  37. a drove of hares
  38. a drum of hummingbirds
  39. a faculty of academics
  40. a fall of lambs
  41. a fall of woodcock
  42. a family of otters
  43. a farrow of piglets
  44. a field of racehorses
  45. a fleet of aircraft
  46. a fleet of bass
  47. a fleet of mudhens
  48. a flight of angels
  49. a flight of cormorants
  50. a flight of dunbirds
  51. a flight of goshawks
  52. a flight of pigeons
  53. a flight of swallows
  54. a fling of dunlins
  55. a fling of oxbirds
  56. a fling of sandpipers
  57. a flink of cows
  58. a flock of birds
  59. a flock of swifts
  60. a flock of turkeys
  1. a flock of wrens
  2. a flotilla of swordfish
  3. a flush of ducks
  4. a fluther of jellyfish
  5. a gaggle of actors
  6. a gaggle of geese
  7. a gang of elk
  8. a gaze of racoons
  9. a generation of vipers
  10. a glaring of cats
  11. a glean of herrings
  12. a glide of flying fish
  13. a glint of goldfish
  14. a glossary of nipples
  15. a grind of blackfish
  16. a grind of bottle-nosed whales
  17. a gulp of cormorants
  18. a gulp of swallows
  19. a handful of children
  20. a harem of seals
  21. a head of curlews
  22. a herd of antelopes
  23. a herd of bison
  24. a herd of bucks
  25. a herd of buffaloes
  26. a herd of caribou
  27. a herd of cattle
  28. a herd of chamois
  29. a herd of hartebeest
  30. a herd of harts
  31. a herd of swans
  32. a herd of wildebeest
  33. a herd of wrens
  34. a hill of beans
  35. a hill of ruffs
  36. a hive of bees
  37. a horde of gerbils
  38. a horde of hamsters
  39. a host of angels
  40. a host of sparrows
  41. a hover of crows
  42. a huddle of walruses
  43. a hunt of hounds
  44. a husk of jackrabbits
  45. a journey of giraffes
  46. a kaleidoscope of butterflies
  47. a kindle of cats
  48. a kindle of leverets
  49. a kine of cattle
  50. a knob of pintail
  51. a labour of moles
  52. a lamentation of swans
  53. a lean of builders
  54. a leap of leopards
  55. a leash of greyhounds
  56. a leash of plovers
  57. a library of books
  58. a litter of cats
  59. a litter of cubs
  60. a litter of pups
  1. a meinie of sparrows
  2. a mess of iguanas
  3. a mews of capons
  4. a mews of hawks
  5. a minge of badgers
  6. a mischief of mice
  7. a mission of monkeys
  8. a mob of kangaroos
  9. a mob of wombats
  10. a moulting of hawks
  11. a murder of crows
  12. a murmuration of starlings
  13. a muster of peacocks
  14. a mustering of storks
  15. a mutation of thrushes
  16. a nuisance of cats
  17. a nye of pheasants
  18. a pace of asses
  19. a pack of cards
  20. a pack of coyote
  21. a pack of hounds
  22. a pack of perch
  23. a paddling of ducks
  24. a pandemonium of parrots
  25. a parcel of birds
  26. a parcel of hinds
  27. a parcel of linnets
  28. a parliament of owls
  29. a parliament of rooks
  30. a party of rainbow fish
  31. a peep of chickens
  32. a phalanx of storks
  33. a piteousness of doves
  34. a pitying of turtledoves
  35. a plump of geese
  36. a plump of moorhens
  37. a plump of waterfowl
  38. a pod of assassins
  39. a pod of birds
  40. a pod of pelicans
  41. a pod of whiting
  42. a pomp of pekingese
  43. a possett of asses
  44. a pounce of cats
  45. a pray of nightingales
  46. a prettying of doves
  47. a prickle of hedgehogs
  48. a prickle of porcupines
  49. a pride of lions
  50. a pride of ostriches
  51. a quantity of smelt
  52. a quiver of arrows
  53. a quiver of cobras
  54. a rabble of butterflies
  55. a raft of auks
  56. a rafter of turkeys
  57. a rainbow of butterflies
  58. a rake of colts
  59. a rascal of boys
  60. a rasp of coots
  1. a remuda of horses
  2. a rhumba of rattlesnakes
  3. a richesse of martens
  4. a richness of martens
  5. a rookery of herons
  6. a run of poultry
  7. a rush of pochard
  8. a school of porpoises
  9. a scold of jays
  10. a scourge of mosquitos
  11. a scry of wildfowl
  12. a sedge of cranes
  13. a sedge of herons
  14. a set of badgers
  15. a set of bastards
  16. a shiver of sharks
  17. a shoal of barbels
  18. a shoal of rooks
  19. a shoal of shad
  20. a shower of bastards
  21. a shower of bullets
  22. a shrewdness of apes
  23. a siege of bitterns
  24. a singular of boars
  25. a skulk of foxes
  26. a smattering of cats
  27. a sneak of weasels
  28. a sord of mallards
  29. a sounder of boars
  30. a sownder of swans
  31. a spring of teals
  32. a squabble of seagulls
  33. a stable of horses
  34. a stack of cash
  35. a stand of flamingos
  36. a stare of owls
  37. a streak of tigers
  38. a stud of horses
  39. a stud of mares
  40. a surfeit of skunks
  41. a sute of bloodhounds
  42. a sute of mallards
  43. a swarm of ants
  44. a swarm of bees
  45. a swarm of rats
  46. a team of athletes
  47. a team of oxen
  48. a thought of barons
  49. a tittering of magpies
  50. a tok of capercaillies
  51. a tower of giraffes
  52. a trembling of finches
  53. a trimming of finches
  54. a trip of dotterel
  55. a trip of goats
  56. a trip of wildfowl
  57. a troop of apes
  58. a troop of baboons
  59. a troop of dogfish
  60. a troubling of goldfinches

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