To learn about collective nouns, first you should understand what a noun is. Nouns have different types. These chapters explain common, proper, and abstract nouns. Now, we have to learn about collective nouns. In this chapter, we will learn what a collective noun is.
What is a collective noun?
A collective noun is a noun used to name a group. The group may be of people, objects, animals, birds or anything else. We can count these nouns, so they are countable nouns. Generally, nouns have singular and plural forms. Because they already name groups or collections, we pluralise them and call them collective nouns.
Some groups or collections have specific names. First, we will look at terms for a group of people.
Collective Noun for People
In this lesson, we will look at collective nouns for groups of people.
Let’s have a look.
- Army – a group of soldiers
- Audience – listeners gathered together for the same event.
- Band – musicians performing for the same event
- Board – directors in the same organisation
- Brigade – a group of soldiers
- Bunch – a group of crooks that are very dishonest persons/cheaters
- Bunch – a group of similar people
- Cast – the actors in a particular movie
- Choir – singers singing for the same event
- Class – students studying in the same class
- Company – a group of soldiers
- Company – a group of actors that usually perform together in plays
- Crew – working members on a ship or plane
- Crowd – people gathered together
- Division – a group of soldiers
- Doctrine – a group of doctors
- Flock – a group of tourists
- Gang – an organised group of thieves/criminals
- Gang – labourers coming together
- Government – a group of people with authority to govern a country or state
- Group – dancers performing the same dance
- Jury – a group of people who have been chosen to listen to the court action and decide whether a person is guilty or not
- Mob – a large disorderly crowd
- Movement – a group of people with similar tendencies for political or social factors
- Pack – an organised group of thieves
- Panel – experts working together on the same topic
- Parliament – a group of beggars
- Party-political people, organised with an intention
- Platoon – soldiers commanded by a lieutenant
- Regiment – a large group of soldiers sometimes made up from a particular city or region and usually commanded by a colonel.
- Squad – a small group of people trained to work together as a unit
- Staff – people (employees) who work together in a company or any other workplace
- Team – players playing on the same side
- Throng – a busy crowd of people
- Tribe – a group of people, often relatives. They live together in a remote area, speak the same language and have the same culture.
- Troupe – a group of performers, such as dancers or singers, who work and travel together
- Superfluity – a group of nuns
- Damning – a group of jurors
- Sentence – a group of judges
- Worship – a group of writers
- Band – a group of students of the same age who came together based on the same ability.
- Faculty – a group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge
- Family – a group of people who are related to each other
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