List 3 - Collective Nouns
Collective Nouns - People
PEOPLE
Noun | Collective Noun | Noun | Collective Noun | |
actors | cast/company/troupe | performers | troupe | |
angels | host | players | team | |
artistes | troupe | policemen | patrol/ posse | |
beauties | bevy | prisoners | gang | |
beautiful women | galaxy | pupils | class | |
climbers | team | rascals | pack | |
crooks | bunch/ gang | rioters | mob | |
customers | trickle | robbers | band/ gang | |
dancers | group/ troupe | rulers | line | |
directors | board | sailors | crew | |
employees | staff | savages | horde | |
entertainers | troupe | servants | staff | |
experts | panel | sightseers | gaggle | |
film stars | galaxy | singers | choir/group/troupe | |
friends | party | soldiers | army/ company/ regiment | |
girls | bevy | spectators | crowd | |
gypsies | caravan | students | class | |
journalists | gaggle | supporters | army | |
kings | dynasty/ line | teachers | staff | |
labourers | gang | team | players | |
magistrates | bench | thieves | gang/ pack | |
men | body | tribe | natives | |
musicians | band/orchestra | troop | scouts | |
people | crowd | worshippers | congregation |
Collective Nouns - Things
THINGS
Noun | Collective Noun | Noun | Collective Noun | |
airplanes | flight, squadron | hair | mass/tuft | |
applause | round | hay | bundle/stack | |
apples | crop | hills | range | |
arms | stack | houses | row | |
arrows | quiver/sheaf | ice | block | |
autographs | album | islands | archipelago/ group | |
bananas | bunch/cluster/ comb/ hand | joy | bundle | |
beads | string | keys | bunch | |
bells | peal | lamb | shoulder | |
blows | shower | letters | packet | |
books | library/set | lies | pack | |
bottles | crate | cars | fleet | |
bread | batch | mountains | chain/range | |
bullets | hail | mutton | shoulder | |
bushes | clump/ hedge | names | list | |
cakes | batch | notes | book | |
cards | deck/pack | paper | ream/sheaf | |
cars | fleet/line | pearls | necklace/rope/ string | |
china | set | photographs | album | |
cigarettes | packet | phrases | glossary | |
cloth | roll | pictures | collection | |
clothes | outfit/ suit | poems | anthology | |
clubs | set | pork | shoulder | |
coconuts | cluster | prices | catalogue | |
coins | collection | rags/old clothes | bundle | |
corn | sheaf/stack/ harvest | rain | fall/shower | |
cotton | bale | rays | pencil | |
curiosities | collection | relics | collection | |
currency/notes | wad | rice | bowl | |
diamonds | cluster | rooms | suite | |
difficult words | glossary | rubbish | heap | |
dirt | layer | ruins | heap/mass | |
drawers | chest | sails | suit | |
dust | cloud | ships | fleet/flotilla | |
eggs | clutch | shoes | pair | |
events | chain/series | smoke | column | |
exercises | book | snow | fall | |
fans (persons) | cluster | soil | layer | |
film | reel/roll | stamps | album/collection | |
firewood | bundle | stars | cluster /constellation/ galaxy | |
flats | block | steps | flight | |
flowers | bouquet/ bunch/ garland | sticks | bundle | |
flowers | posy/wreath | stones | heap | |
fruit | basket/ crate | taxis | fleet | |
fruit trees | orchard | technical terms | glossary | |
furniture | suite | thread | reel | |
galaxies | cluster | timber | stack | |
games | compendium | tobacco leaves | handful | |
golf clubs | set | tools | set | |
goods | catalogue/stock | trees | clump/ forest/ grove | |
grain | sheaf | twins | pair | |
grapes | bunch/cluster | wheat | harvest/sheaf | |
grass | tuft | wood | stack/ stock | |
guns | battery | wool | bale |
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