collective noun

"I think that a knowledge of the different collective nouns is very important."

This was to replace collective nouns with a unit of which they were made up.

But what of collective nouns like government, company, public?

One question I asked was, what would be the collective noun for a group of gingers?

It is used as the collective noun for everything?

The book where I found that fancy name you've probably never heard of neglected to give a collective noun for them.

That collective noun could therefore represent a great number of separate images.

The pupils had been asked to learn a list of collective nouns and were being tested on them.

The local paper found that the collective noun for the clan should be a plague!

Below are some common collective nouns for groups of animals:

The word "troika" is the Russian collective noun for groups of three things.

Ah, but there are also collective nouns to consider.

What use is made of proper names? collective nouns?

A collective noun for any set of memory bits.

"And when would the pupils be in a position to apply this extensive knowledge of the collective noun?"

"I teach them that the collective noun always takes the singular form of the verb."

Is the collective noun for a bunch of writers a Lexicon?

The word for a group of crows, or its collective noun, is a "murder".

The time-honored collective noun for several fishermen is a "drift."

The word "enemy" itself provides the facelessness of a collective noun.

Take our changing use of collective nouns to describe the groups of people we work with.

"Having got the pupils to learn the various collective nouns, what do you do next?"

The collective noun for kangaroos is a mob, troop, or court.

Parliament - collective noun for a group of owls.

"whatever the collective noun for a gaggle of guardian journalists is"