List of collective nouns by collective term A-K
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Collective noun
List of collective nouns
List of collective nouns by collective term
| COLLECTIVE TERM | COLLECTIVE PHRASE | STATUS |
| aarmory | An aarmory of aardvarks | Spurious |
| abomination | An abomination of monks (see note) | Spurious |
| absence | An absence of professors | Spurious |
| agenda | An agenda of tasks | √ |
| ambush | An ambush of widows | Spurious |
| ambush | An ambush of tigers | √ |
| anthology | An anthology of prostitutes (see note) | Spurious |
| anthology | An anthology of prose | √ |
| archipelago | An archipelago of islands | √ |
| armada | An armada of ships | √ |
| army | An army of ants | √ |
| army | An army of caterpillars | √ |
| army | An army of frogs | √ |
| ascension | An ascension of larks | √ |
| asylum | An asylum of programmers | Spurious |
| audit | An audit of bookkeepers | √ |
| aurora | An aurora of Polar Bears | √ |
| babble | A babble of barbers | Spurious |
| balance | A balance of accountants | Uncertain |
| bale | A bale of turtles | √ |
| band | A band of jays | √ |
| band | A band of men | √ |
| band | A band of gorillas | √ |
| bank | A bank of monitors | √ |
| bank | A bank of swans | √ |
| banner | A banner of knights | √ |
| barren | A barren of mules | √ |
| bask | A bask of crocodiles | √ |
| batch | A batch of bread | √ |
| bavin | A bavin of brush (wood) | √ |
| bazaar | A bazaar of guillemots | √ |
| bed | A bed of snakes | √ |
| bed | A bed of clams | √ |
| bed | A bed of oysters | √ |
| bellowing | A bellowing of bullfinches | √ |
| belt | A belt of asteroids | √ |
| bench | A bench of show dogs | Uncertain |
| bevy | A bevy of roes | √ |
| bevy | A bevy of beauties | √ |
| bevy | A bevy of quail | √ |
| bevy | A bevy of swans | √ |
| bevy | A bevy of ladies | √ |
| bew | A bew of partridges | Uncertain |
| bind | A bind of salmon | √ |
| bite | A bite of midges | Uncertain |
| blast | A blast of strumpets | Spurious |
| blessing | A blessing of unicorns | √ |
| bloat | A bloat of bureaucrats | Spurious |
| bloat | A bloat of hippopotami | Uncertain |
| body | A body of pathologists | Spurious |
| bond | A bond of secret agents | Spurious |
| book | A book of wagers | √ |
| bouquet | A bouquet of pheasants | √ |
| bouquet | A bouquet of flowers | √ |
| brace | A brace of orthodontists | Spurious |
| brigade | A brigade of soldiers | √ |
| brood | A brood of hens | √ |
| building | A building of rooks | √ |
| bunch | A bunch of things | √ |
| bunch | A bunch of grapes | √ |
| bury | A bury of rabbits | √ |
| bury | A bury of conies | √ |
| business | A business of flies | √ |
| business | A business of ferrets | √ |
| cache | A cache of jewels | √ |
| cast | A cast of actors | √ |
| cast | A cast of falcons | √ |
| cast | A cast of hawks | √ |
| catalogue | A catalogue of librarians | Spurious |
| cavalcade | A cavalcade of horsemen | √ |
| cete | A cete of badgers | √ |
| chain | A chain of islands | √ |
| charm | A charm of hummingbirds | √ |
| charm | A charm of finches | √ |
| chattering | A chattering of choughs | √ |
| chine | A chine of polecats | √ |
| chorus | A chorus of angels | √ |
| clamour | A clamour of Rooks | √ |
| clan | A clan of hyenas | √ |
| class | A class of students | √ |
| clattering | A clattering of Choughs | √ |
| clew | A clew of worms | Uncertain |
| closet | A closet of homosexuals | √ |
| cloud | A cloud of grasshoppers | √ |
| cloud | A cloud of gnats | √ |
| cloud | A cloud of sea fowl | √ |
| clout | A clout of gnats | Uncertain |
| clowder | A clowder of cats | √ |
| cluster | A cluster of spiders | √ |
| cluster | A cluster of cats | √ |
| cluster | A cluster of grasshoppers | √ |
| clutch | A clutch of mechanics | Spurious |
| clutch | A clutch of eggs | √ |
| clutch | A clutch of chicks | √ |
| clutter | A clutter of cats | √ |
| clutter | A clutter of spiders | √ |
| coil | A coil of Wigeon | √ |
| collective | A collective of nouns | √ |
| colony | A colony of ants | √ |
| colony | A colony of bats | √ |
| colony | A colony of beavers | √ |
| colony | A colony of gulls | √ |
| colony | A colony of penguins | √ |
| colony | A colony of rats | √ |
| colony | A colony of lepers | √ |
| colony | A colony of rabbits | √ |
| company | A company of actors | √ |
| company | A company of moles | √ |
| company | A company of parrots | √ |
| company | A company of soldiers | √ |
| complex | A complex of psychoanalysts | Spurious |
| conflagration | A conflagration of arsonists | √ |
| conglomerate | A conglomerate of geologists | Spurious |
| congregation | A congregation of worshipers | √ |
| congregation | A congregation of plovers | √ |
| congress | A congress of baboons | √ |
| conspiracy | A conspiracy of ravens | √ |
| constellation | A constellation of satellites | √ |
| converting | A converting of preachers | √ |
| convocation | A convocation of eagles | √ |
| convoy | A convoy of lorries | √ |
| convoy | A convoy of trucks | √ |
| corps | A corps of giraffe | √ |
| corps | A corps of anatomists | Spurious |
| cortege | A cortege of mourners | √ |
| court | A court of kangaroos (see note) | Spurious |
| coven | A coven of witches | √ |
| cover | A cover of coots | √ |
| covey | A covey of partridges | √ |
| covey | A covey of pheasants | √ |
| covey | A covey of quail | √ |
| covey | A covey of grouse | √ |
| cowardice | A cowardice of curs | √ |
| crash | A crash of rhinoceroses | √ |
| crash | A crash of hippopotami | √ |
| creche | A creche of penguins | √ |
| crew | A crew of sailors | √ |
| crowd | A crowd of onlookers | √ |
| cruft | A cruft of hackers | Spurious |
| cry | A cry of dogs | √ |
| cry | A cry of hounds | √ |
| culture | A culture of bacteria | √ |
| deceit | A deceit of lapwings | √ |
| deck | A deck of cards | √ |
| den | A den of thieves | √ |
| den | A den of snakes | √ |
| descent | A descent of woodpeckers | √ |
| descent | A descent of relatives | Spurious |
| desert | A desert of lapwings | √ |
| destruction | A destruction of cats (feral or wild) | √ |
| dilation | A dilation of pupils | Spurious |
| disguising | A disguising of tailors | √ |
| dissimulation | A dissimulation of birds | √ |
| disworship | A disworship of scots | √ |
| diving | A diving of teal | √ |
| division | A division of soldiers | √ |
| doading | A doading of sheldrakes | √ |
| doctrine | A doctrine of doctors | √ |
| dole | A dole of doves | √ |
| donut | A donut of data | Spurious |
| dopping | A dopping of ducks (diving) | √ |
| down | A down of hares | √ |
| draught | A draught of fish | √ |
| dray | A dray of squirrels | √ |
| drift | A drift of swine | √ |
| drift | A drift of hogs | Uncertain |
| drift | A drift of fish | √ |
| drove | A drove of pigs | √ |
| drove | A drove of cattle | √ |
| drum | A drum of goldfinches | √ |
| drunken ship | A drunken ship of cobblers | √ |
| dule | A dule of turtles | √ |
| dule | A dule of doves | √ |
| embarrassment | A embarrassment of riches | √ |
| exaggeration | An exaggeration of fishermen | Spurious |
| exaltation | An exaltation of larks | √ |
| eyrar | An eyrar of swans | Uncertain |
| faculty | A faculty of academics | √ |
| fall | A fall of lambs | √ |
| farrow | A farrow of piglets | √ |
| fellowship | A fellowship of yeomen | √ |
| fesnying | A fesnying of ferrets | Questionable |
| field | A field of theoretical physicists | Spurious |
| field | A field of racehorses | √ |
| flange | A flange of baboons | √ |
| fleet | A fleet of mudhen | Uncertain |
| fleet | A fleet of ships | √ |
| flight | A flight of swallows | √ |
| flight | A flight of goshawks | √ |
| flight | A flight of doves | √ |
| flight | A flight of cormorants | √ |
| fling | A fling of sandpipers | √ |
| fling | A fling of Dunlin | √ |
| flink | A flink of cows | √ |
| flock | A flock of sheep | √ |
| flock | A flock of tourists | √ |
| flock | A flock of geese | √ |
| flock | A flock of camels | √ |
| flock | A flock of seagulls | √ |
| flotilla | A flotilla of ships | √ |
| flush | A flush of plumbers | Spurious |
| flush | A flush of ducks | √ |
| fluther | A fluther of jellyfish | √ |
| flutter | A flutter of cardiologists | Spurious |
| fry | A fry of eels | Uncertain |
| gaggle | A gaggle of women | √ |
| gaggle | A gaggle of geese | √ |
| galaxy | A galaxy of starlets | √ |
| galaxy | A galaxy of stars | √ |
| gam | A gam of whales | √ |
| gang | A gang of elk | √ |
| gang | A gang of hoodlums | √ |
| gaze | A gaze of raccoons | √ |
| geek | A geek of engineers | Spurious |
| giggle | A giggle of girls | √ |
| glaring | A glaring of cats | √ |
| glean | A glean of herrings | √ |
| graft | A graft of tree surgeons | Spurious |
| grind | A grind of blackfish | Uncertain |
| grist | A grist of bees | √ |
| grove | A grove of trees | √ |
| gulp | A gulp of swallows | Spurious |
| hangout | A hangout of nudists | Spurious |
| harass | A harass of horses | √ |
| head | A head of curlews | √ |
| heap | A heap of trash | √ |
| heard | A heard of harlots | √ |
| herd | A herd of fairies | √ |
| herd | A herd of cattle | √ |
| herd | A herd of elephants | √ |
| herd | A herd of zebra | √ |
| herd | A herd of cows | √ |
| herd | A herd of chamois | √ |
| herd | A herd of walruses | √ |
| herd | A herd of pigs | √ |
| herd | A herd of deer | √ |
| herd | A herd of antelope | √ |
| herd | A herd of whales | √ |
| herd | A herd of buffalo | √ |
| hill | A hill of beans | √ |
| hill | A hill of ruffs | √ |
| hive | A hive of bees | √ |
| horde | A horde of misers | Spurious |
| horde | A horde of gnats | √ |
| host | A host of sparrows | √ |
| host | A host of angels | √ |
| house | A house of senators | √ |
| hover | A hover of trout | √ |
| hover | A hover of crows | √ |
| huddle | A huddle of lawyers | √ |
| huddle | A huddle of penguins | √ |
| husk | A husk of hares | √ |
| illusion | An illusion of painters | √ |
| indifference | An indifference of waiters | Spurious |
| intrusion | An intrusion of cockroaches | Uncertain |
| kaleidoscope | A kaleidoscope of butterflies | Uncertain |
| kettle | A kettle of hawks | √ |
| kindle | A kindle of kittens (cats) | √ |
| kine | A kine of cattle | √ |
| kit | A kit of pigeons | Uncertain |
| knob | A knob of waterfowl | Uncertain |
| knot | A knot of toads | √ |