collective
Group working together
Collective describes things done by or belonging to a group acting together: collective bargaining, collective responsibility, collective memory.
A collective is a cooperative enterprise owned and operated by its members.
In grammar, collective nouns name groups—*team*, *flock*, *committee*—that can take singular or plural verbs depending on whether the group acts as a unit.
Joint effort toward shared aim
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- partnershipShared business arrangement
- jointShared by multiple parties
- unitedJoined as one
combined · concerted · mutual · participative · reciprocal · interdependent · coordinated · pooled
Collective of connected people
- villageSmall rural community
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- fellowshipMutual goodwill among companions
neighborhood · kinship · union · congregation · network · affiliation · alliance · confederation
Constructing from components
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- multitudeVery large number
- throngDense pressing crowd
crowd · mass · horde · flock · herd · pack · cluster · bunch
Joint intellectual work
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- symbiosisInterspecies biological interdependence
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
integration · interplay · cohesion · synthesis · unison · concert · interconnection · mutuality
Group with alternative norms
- intelligentsiaEducated, intellectual class
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- peasantryRural working class
diaspora · electorate · citizenry · constituency · workforce · membership · rank-and-file · grassroots
teamwork
Joint effort toward shared aim
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- partnershipShared business arrangement
- jointShared by multiple parties
united · combined · concerted · mutual · participative · reciprocal · interdependent · coordinated · pooled · shared
community
Collective of connected people
fellowship · neighborhood · kinship · union · congregation · network · affiliation · alliance · confederation · federation
assembly
Constructing from components
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- multitudeVery large number
throng · crowd · mass · horde · flock · herd · pack · cluster · bunch · troop
collaboration
Joint intellectual work
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- symbiosisInterspecies biological interdependence
convergence · integration · interplay · cohesion · synthesis · unison · concert · interconnection · mutuality · gestalt
subculture
Group with alternative norms
- intelligentsiaEducated, intellectual class
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
peasantry · diaspora · electorate · citizenry · constituency · workforce · membership · rank-and-file · grassroots · demos
bees
Winged pollinators
drone · worker · comb · apiary · buzzing · foraging · superorganism · eusocial · ant · termite
- social groupsdemographic groups, community, clan, ethnic groups, age groups
- collaborationteamwork, partnership, co-creation, alliance, sharing
- togethernesstogether, united, unity, togetherness, bonding
- Arts Groupsarts council, art league, guild, cooperative, association
- decentralizationdecentralized, distribute, spread, disperse, scatter
- grammatical numbersingular, plural, dual
collectiveseparate
To set apart
divided · individual · dispersed · fragmented · discrete
collectiveprivate
Restricted to certain parties
personal · exclusive · proprietary · individualistic · capitalist
- card collectingHobby of gathering trading pieces
- movie collectionAccumulated owned films
- coin collectionAccumulated currency specimens
- collection plateReceptacle for congregational donations
- permanent collectionInstitution's owned artworks
- trash collectionHauling away discarded materials
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