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Collective Nouns
A collective noun is the word used to label a group of nouns as a whole. For instance, a group of fish is collectively called a school.
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What is a collective noun for canoes?
A collective noun is a noun used to group people or things in a descriptive way.
A collective noun is not used for a singular noun such as 'boat'.
The standard collective noun for boats is a flotilla of boats.
What is the collective term for young mice?
A group of mice are called a mischief or nest. A family is called a horde. The male is called a Buck and the female a Doe.
A group of mice is commonly referred to as a family, and also as a horde, a mischief, or simply, and most frequently, a nest of mice.
Other collective nouns describing mice include a colonyand a harvest. The former is self-explanatory; the latter from the fact mice and other rodents nest in the dry stubble of wheat and other cereal plants following the harvest.
A group of baby mice is called a litter.
Some might refer to mice, when they are regarded as a pest, as a plague, but this isn't a group (collective) noun as such, it simply illustrates the fact the creatures are a nuisance, as in a plague of cockroaches.
What is the collective word for corn?
Since there are different meanings to the word corn, different meanings may not fit what you mean. Bunion or callous can mean corn. And those are much less appetizing than maize, another word for a different kind of corn
Who invented collective nouns?
Everyday people 'invented' collective nouns. Collective nouns came into language naturally as a way of describing a group of two or more people or things.
For example, 'a herd of horses' is a large group of horses, while 'a stable of horses' is a group of specially bred horses.
The collective noun 'a tribe of monkeys' describes an extended family of monkeys in their natural habitat while a 'barrel of monkeys' describes nonsensical behavior of a group of monkeys or people behaving like monkeys.
In addition to the type of group or the behavior of a group of animals, people in different places may have described a group or a behavior in different ways, creating several different collective nouns for groups of the same animals.
What is the collective noun for people watching a match?
Collective nouns for people at a football match are a crowd of people, a stadium of people, and sometimes a mob of people.
The people playing the match are a teams of players, or teams of footballers.
What is collective noun for group of grandmothers?
There is no standard collective noun for the noun grandmothers, in which case any noun that suits the situation can function as a collective noun. For example, you might have a 'pair of grandmothers', a 'groupof grandmothers', a 'crowd of grandmothers', etc.
The collective nouns for grandparents are a wisdom of grandparents and a nag of grandparents.
What is the collective for phone?
Cell phones are recent enough that a specific collective noun has not come into common use. When there is no collective noun, a noun that suits the circumstances is used. If it becomes used regularly and commonly, it eventually becomes 'the collective noun'.
Since the industry is bent on customers constantly upgrading, a person may have a series of cell phones; a person may have a number of cell phones for different purposes, a variety of cell phones; an electronics department would have a selection of cell phones.
Contributors have offered 'an exchange of cell phones', 'a ring of cell phones, and 'an annoyance of cell phones', and I would throw in 'a one upsmanship of cell phones'.
A collective noun becomes a collective noun when it becomes the most commonly used term for something.
What is the collective noun for diplomats?
There is no specific collective noun for diplomats, in which case a noun suitable for the situation can be used. Some suggestions I have found are an embassy of diplomats, a drove of diplomats, a flattery of diplomats, an opiate of diplomats.
What did u understand by collective naturalization?
users of British English generally accept that collective nouns take either singular or plural verb forms depending on context and the metonymic shift that it implies. Morphological derivation accounts for many collective words and various languages have common affixes for denoting collective nouns. Because derivation is a slower and less productive word formation process than the more overtly syntactical morphological methods
What are the collective nouns for bananas?
Collective nouns for bananas:
- a cluster of bananas (on the tree)
- a bunch of bananas
- a hand of bananas
No, a collective noun is a noun followed by a prepositional phrase: noun+of+noun. A collective noun with prepositional phrase forms a noun phrase: any word or group of words based on a noun or pronoun (without a verb) that can function in a sentence as a subject, object of a verb or a preposition.
collective noun phrase as subject: A flock of birds flew overhead.
collective noun phrase as object: My brother brought a bouquet of flowers for mother.
What is a collective noun for a group of reindeer?
The word reindeer is a common noun, a word for any reindeer anywhere.
A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, thing, or a title; for example:
- William Killefer, "Reindeer Bill", played, coached, managed Major League Baseball from 1909 to 1957.
- Reindeer Lake, on the border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada
- Reindeer Street, New Orleans, LA or Reindeer Street, Santa Claus, GA
- Reindeer Ranch California Sweet White Wine (Rutherford Wine Company)
- "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" by Robert L. May, originally published 1939
What is the collective noun for Fleas?
The collective noun for fleas is a swarm. The same is used for many insects which move in a mass such as a swarm of flies, a swarm of bees, a swarm of mosquitoes, etc.
Yes, the word 'cart' is both a noun (cart, carts) and a verb (cart, carts, carting, carted). Examples:
noun: The man was not watching his cart when it rolled into my car.
verb: We had to cart all of the paint and equipment up to the third floor.
Is of the audience a collective noun?
Some examples of collective nouns:
- abandonment of orphans
- absence of waiters
- army of ants
- army of frogs
- ascension of larks
- audience of listeners
- audience of spectators
- bag of tricks
- bale of turtles
- band of angels
- band of coyotes
- band of gorillas
- band of muscians
- band of pirates
- bank of elevators
- barrel of monkeys
- barren of mules
- bask of alligators
- bed of oysters
- bench of magistrates
- bevy of beauties
- bevy of quails
- blessing of unicorns
- block of flats
- board of directors
- body of pathologists
- bouquet of flowers
- brace of ducks
- brace of pheasants
- brood of hens
- bunch of grapes
- bushel of corn
- bushel of crabs
- caravan of camels
- chain of mountains
- charm of finches
- charm of hummingbirds
- chest of drawers
- class of students
- cloud of grasshoppers
- cluster of stars
- clutch of eggs
- collection of stamps
- colony of ants
- colony of beavers
- colony of penguins
- company of actors
- company of owls
- congregation of crocodiles
- congress of baboons
- convocation of eagles
- coven of witches
- covey of quail
- crew of sailors
- den of thieves
- fleet of cars
- fleet of ships
- flight of cormorants
- flock of birds
- flock of sheep
- flock of tourists
- gaggle of geese
- gang of hoodlums
- group of onlookers
- herd of buffalo
- host of sparrows
- kindle of kittens
- knot of toads
- litter of puppies
- mob of kangaroos
- murder of crows
- murmuration of starlings
- nest of snakes
- network of computers
- pack of wolves
- pack of cards
- pack of cigarettes
- pack of gum
- pack of lies
- pack of wolves
- panel of experts
- pod of porpoises
- pod of whales
- posse of lawmen
- pride of peacocks
- pride of lions
- school of fish
- sedge of cranes
- shoal of minnows
- stable of horses
- string of ponies
- swarm of bees
- swarm of eels
- swarm of flies
- team of mules
- team of oxen
- team of players
- troop of scouts
- troop of soldiers
- troupe of acrobats
- troupe of minstrels
- warren of rabbits
There is no standard collective noun for a group of events, however, any noun that suits a situation can function as a collective noun.
Examples of collective nouns for events are a series of events or a schedule of events.
How do collective nouns from plural nouns?
No one can know for sure how many collective nouns there are. There are several hundred established collective nouns and almost as many fanciful collective nouns that people like to think up. Some collective nouns have become obsolete and new collective nouns are created as society changes. When I got my first office job, there was no such thing as a network of computers, it hadn't been invented yet.
Is school of girls is correct in collective noun?
Yes, the noun 'school' is an appropriate collective noun for the noun 'girls'. A collective noun is an informal part of language. Any noun suitable for the context of a situation can be a collective noun. The standard collective nouns for 'girls' are:
- a bevy of girls
- a giggle of girls
What is collective plural noun for shoppers?
The collective noun is a crush of shoppers; the plural form is crushes of shoppers.
What is the collective noun for a lot of snow starting with d?
Collective nouns for snow are a blanket of snow, a bank of snow, or a drift of snow.
What do you call a groupe of thieves?
a gang of thieves
a den of thieves
a skulk of thieves
a band of thieves
What collective nouns are used for cigarettes?
The collective nouns are a carton of cigarettes, a pack of cigarettes, or a packet of cigarettes.
