collective noun
Word for many
A collective noun names a group of people, animals, or things considered as a unit: herd, flock, committee, family.
English has developed fanciful collective nouns for animals—a murder of crows, a parliament of owls—though many exist more in wordplay than actual usage.
Collective nouns take singular or plural verbs depending on whether the group acts as one or as individuals: The team is winning versus The team are arguing among themselves.
Deliberate unlawful killing
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- flockAnimals gathered together
- herdGrazing animals together
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
pack · gaggle · swarm · colony · pod · troop · school · murmuration
Constructing from components
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
- boardFlat rigid panel
- panelDistinct flat section
jury · team · troupe · choir · congregation · audience · crowd · class
Very large number
- throngDense pressing crowd
- hordeDisorganized, overwhelming crowd
- legionGreat number, or soldiers
- myriadExtremely large number
host · mass · swarm · sea · army · flood · plethora · abundance
Shared position between parties
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- subject-verbCore sentence elements linked
- concordMutual agreement, peaceful relations
- singularOne in number
plural · verb form · number · predicate · usage · determiners · inflection · morphology
murder
Deliberate unlawful killing
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
- flockAnimals gathered together
- herdGrazing animals together
pride · pack · gaggle · swarm · colony · pod · troop · school · murmuration · unkindness
assembly
Constructing from components
panel · jury · team · troupe · choir · congregation · audience · crowd · class · faculty
multitude
Very large number
myriad · host · mass · swarm · sea · army · flood · plethora · abundance · profusion
agreement
Shared position between parties
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- subject-verbCore sentence elements linked
- concordMutual agreement, peaceful relations
singular · plural · verb form · number · predicate · usage · determiners · inflection · morphology · possessive
- grammar partsverb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition
- grammar termsverb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition
- noun typesnouns, common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, plural nouns
- grammatical categoriesmasculine, feminine, neuter, singular, plural
- noun grammarcase, declension, cases, genitive, ablative
- grammardeclension, pronouns, adjectives, conjugation, nouns
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