Collective Nouns

Collective nouns for gulls are:

• a pack of gulls
• a screech of gulls
• a scavaging of gulls
• a skeins of gulls
• a swoop of gulls
• a leash of gulls
• a squabble of gulls
• a colony of gulls

Some collective nouns relating to education are:

• a faculty of teachers
• a faculty of academics
• a class of students
• a decorum of deans
• a panel of experts
• a conjunction of grammarians

There is no standardized collective nouns for flour. This is most likely because flour has come in many forms in many places over the centuries.

Collective nouns are an informal part of language. Any noun that is descriptive of the thing grouped can function as a collective noun. Some common examples are:

• a sack of flour
• a cup of flour
• a dusting of flour

A collective noun is a word used to group people or things taken together as one whole in a descriptive way. A collective noun is an informal part of language. A collective noun can be a noun that describes a group effectively or a noun that describes a group in a fanciful way.

There are many collective nouns that have become standardized with use over time but it is not necessary to use a standardized collective noun, any noun that is suitable for a given situation can be used. The only rules that apply to collective nouns are the general rules of good grammar. Some examples are:

• a choir of angels
• a troop of baboons
• a pack of cards

A compound noun is a word made of two or more individual words that merge to form a noun with a meaning of its own. There are three types of compound nouns:

• open spaced: tennis shoe, front door, paint brush, bus stop
• hyphenated: mother-in-law, fifty-five, six-pack, T-shirt
• closed: bathtub, baseball, houseboat, lunchbox, keyboard

Some collective nouns for people in a religious place are:

• a congregation of worshipers
• an assembly of churchgoers
• a gathering of churchgoers
• a flock of pilgrims

The collective nouns for doctors are

• a dose of doctors
• a doctrine of doctors
• a scope of doctors
• a field of doctors

In everyday terms, doctors are generally grouped with "College" (the College of Physicians and Surgeons), an "Association" (the Association of Family Doctors), or when they work in the same office or clinic together, a "group" or a "practice".

There is no standard collective noun for a group of burglars, which may be due to the fact that most burglars work alone.

The standard collective nouns for thieves or robbers can be used:

• a band of burglars
• a den of burglars
• a gang of burglars
• a skulk of burglars

The standard collective nouns for playing cards are:

• a pack of cards
• a deck of cards

There are many words for a group of vultures.

A group of vultures may be a cast, committee, meal, vortex, venue and even wake.

Some sources state that a group of vultures circling in the air is called a kettle.

There is no specific collective noun for 'grain'. A collective noun is an informal part of language, any noun that is suitable for the situation can be used, for example:

• a field of grain
• a ton of grain
• a sack of grain
• a silo of grain

For the noun 'grain', as a word for the striations in wood, an example is a selection of grains.

The collective noun for the applicants who have been hired is:

• a staff of employees