No, a butcher is a word for a person, one person.
A collective noun is a noun used to group people or things in a descriptive way, for example, a group of butchers, a crew of butchers, a family of butchers, etc.
There is no specific collective noun for the noun 'slough' (nor could I find a collective noun for marsh, swamp, bog, or wetlands). This is not surprising since such landforms are not usually in groups, a whole area is considered a slough. Although there is no specific collective noun for the noun 'slough' as a word for sadness or despair, there is there is a collective noun that can be borrowed, a wilderness of slough.
Yes, in the term 'a bottle of vinegar', the noun 'bottle' is serving as a collective noun. A collective noun is considered a collective noun as a function, not as a definition of the noun. Collective nouns are an informal part of language.
You Could Look It Up. A collective noun names a group of people or things. Examples of collective nouns include class, committee, flock, herd, team, audience, assembly, team, club, and so on. A collective noun is treated as plural when the group it names is considered to be made up of individuals. #CarryOnLearning:)
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A collective noun is a word used to group people or things taken together as one whole. The noun 'salvation' is not commonly a collective noun. However, if a noun such as 'salvation' suits the context of a situation, it can be used as a collective noun. A collective noun is considered a collective noun as a function, not as a definition of the noun. Collective nouns are an informal part of language.
The term 'festival of light' can be considered a compound noun or informally a collective noun. There is no formal collective noun for the word 'light', in which case an appropriate noun suitable to the context can be used.
Building is not a collective noun it is a singular common noun. A collective noun for building could be block. eg A block of buildings
No, businesspeople is not a collective noun, it is a common plural noun. A collective noun for businesspeople could be staff, committee, or board. Businesspeople is a genre or a type not a group.
The collective noun for human arms is a pair of arms. The collective noun for arms as weapons could be armory, cache, or store of arms.
Collective noun for porpoises could be a school, herd, pod, crowd or shoal
Yes, the word 'loaves' is a collective noun for loaves of bread.
Since the compound noun 'flying saucers' has no collective noun of its own, you can borrow the collective noun for planes: a fleet of flying saucers. You could borrow the collective noun for dishes (saucers): a set of flying saucers. Or, you can use a word of your own choosing. When a noun becomes commonly used as a collective noun for something, that noun becomes 'the' collective noun for that noun.