Collective Nouns #

Nouns are words that used as name of a person, place or thing. e.g. tree; horse.

Proper nouns name specific people, places or things, common nouns name general ones, while abstract nouns name ideas or things we can not see, feel or taste.

Collective nouns name groups of people, places of things.

Here are some interesting words that describe groups of people, places or things:

Animals

Drift of hogs Exaltation of Larks Muster of Peacocks

Pride of lions Pod of whales Siege of herons

Sloth of bears Nursery of racoons Watch of nightingales

Ambush of tigers Shrewdness of apes Lepe of leopards

Corps of giraffes Troop of kangaroo Skulk of foxes

Swarm of bees Brood of birds (hens) School of fish

Clutch of hens Lodge of beavers Litter of whelps (dogs)

“implausibility” of platapus.

General #

Galaxy of stars Giggle of girls Wobble of bicycles

Yawn of lessons Batch of tarts Dampness of babies

Chain of smokers Class of racists Anthology of poems/stories

Suite of furniture Fanfare of strumpets Clan/throng of people

Cellar of wine Crawling of sycophants

Professions #

Handof masseurs Tackle of footballers Exchange of stockholders

Case of lawyers Horde of collectors Body of undertakers

Suit of tailors Warp of statisticians Palette of painters

Cell of policemen Promise of politicians Surplice of parsons

Lack of Principals Quantity of surveyors

Massof priests Rack of toastmasters Cast of orthopaedic surgeons

Squint of farmers Couch of psychiatrists Column (clutch) of journalists

Lot of salesmen Cliché of columnists Herd of otolaryngologists

Sentence of judges Rash of dermatologists Movement of gastroenterologists

Floss of dentists Clot of haematologists Stream (dribble) of urologists

Score of composers Brace of orthodontists Sample of pathologists