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Collective Noun

          a collective noun is a collection of things taken as a whole. For example, in the phrase "a pride of lions", pride is a collective noun.

         Most collective nouns in everyday speech for example , such as "group", are mundane and are not specific to a kind of object. For example, the terms "group of people", "group of dogs", and "group of ideas" are all correct uses. Others, especially words belonging to the large subset of collective nouns known as terms of venery (words for groups of animals), are specific to one kind of constituent object. For example, "pride" as a term of venery refers to lions, but not to dogs or cows.

List Of Collective Noun

Subject	Collective Noun
A
alligators	congregation
antelopes	herd
ants	swarm
ants	nest
ants	colony
ants	army
apes	troop
apes	shrewdness
asses	pace or passe
asses	herd
asses	drove
B
baboons	troop
badgers	cete
bats	colony
bears	sleuth or sloth
beavers	family
beavers	colony
bees	swarm
bees	grist
bees	erst
bees	drift
birds	pod
birds	flock
birds	flight
birds	dissimulation
bitterns	sedge or sege
boars (wild boars)	sounder
boys	blush
buffalo	herd
bullfinches	bellowing
bullocks	drove
butlers	draught
butterflies	swarm
butterflies	flutter
buzzards	wake
C
camels	train
camels	flock
camels	caravan
capercaillie	tok
capons	mews
caribou	herd
caterpillars	army
cats	pounce
cats	glaring
cats	cluster or clutter
cats	clowder
cats (wild cats)	destruction
cattle	herd
cattle	drove
chickens	peep
chickens	clutch
chickens	brood
choughs	chattering or clattering
cobblers	drunkenship or drunkship
cockroaches	intrusion
colts	rake
colts	rag
cooks	hastiness
coots	covert
cormorants	gulp
coyotes	pack
cranes	sedge or sege
cranes	herd
crocodiles	float
crocodiles	bask
crows	murder
curlews	herd
D
deer	rangale
deer	parcel
deer	mob
deer	herd
deer	bunch
dogfish	troop
dogs	pack
dolphins	team
dolphins	school
dolphins	pod
dotterel	trip
doves	piteousness
doves	flight
doves	dole or dule
ducks	waddling
ducks	team
ducks	string
ducks	sord or sore
ducks	skein
ducks	raft
ducks	plump
ducks	paddling
ducks	flock
ducks	bunch
ducks	badling
dunlins	fling
E
eagles	convocation
eels	swarm
eels	bed
elephants	memory
elephants	herd
elk	herd
elk	gang
emus	mob
F
ferrets	busyness
ferrets	business
ferrets	besyness fesynes fesnyng feamyng
finches	charm or chirm
fish	shoal
fish	school
flamingoes	stand
flies	swarm
flies	cloud
flies	business
foresters	stalk
foxes	skulk
foxes	leash
frogs	army
G
geese	wedge
geese	team
geese	skein
geese	plump
geese	gaggle
geese	flock
giraffes	tower
giraffes	herd
giraffes	corps
gnats	swarm
gnats	rabble
gnats	horde
gnats	cloud
goats	trip or trippe
goats	tribe
goats	herd
goats	flock
goldfinches	charm
goosanders	dopping
gorillas	whoop
gorillas	band
goshawks	flight
grasshoppers	swarm
grasshoppers	cloud
grouse	pack
grouse	covey
guineafowl	rasp
H
hares	husk
hares	flick
hares	drove
hares	down
harts	herd
hawks	lease
hawks	kettle
hawks	cast
hawks	boil
hedgehogs	array
hermits	observance
herons	siege
herons	sedge or sege
hippopotamuses	bloat
hogs	parcel
horses	team
horses	stud
horses	string
horses	stable
horses	herd
horses	haras or harrase
horses	band
hounds	stable
hounds	pack
hounds	mute
hounds	meet
hounds	hunt
hounds	cry
hyenas	cackle
I
ibex	herd
ibises	colony
iguanas	mess
insects	swarm
insects	rabble
insects	plague
insects	horde
insects	flight
J
jackdaws	train
jackdaws	clattering
jays	scold
jays	party
jays	band
jellyfish	smack
jellyfish	fluther
K
kangaroos	troop
kangaroos	mob
kittens	kindle
L
lapwings	deceit or desert
larks	exaltation
larks	bevy
leopards	leap or lepe
lions	sawt
lions	pride
M
mackerel	shoal
magpies	tittering
magpies	tiding
magpies	murder
magpies	gulp
magpies	congregation
magpies	charm
mallards	suit or sute
mallards	sord
mallards	puddling
mallards	flush
mares	stud
martens	richesse or richness
mice	trip
mice	nest
mice	mischief
minnows	shoal
moles	labor or labour
moles	company
monkeys	troop
monkeys	tribe
monkeys	cartload
monkeys	barrel
moorhens	plump
moose	herd
mosquitoes	scourge
mudhens	fleet
mules	span
mules	rake
mules	pack
mules	barren
N
nightingales	watch
nuns	superfluity
O
owls	parliament
oxen	yoke
oxen	team
oxen	drove
P
parrots	pandemonium
parrots	company
partridges	covey
peacocks	pride
peacocks	ostentation
peacocks	muster
pelicans	pod
pheasants	nye
pheasants	nide
pheasants	nest
pheasants	head
pheasants	bouquet
pigeons	kit
pigs	drove
pigs	drift
pipers	poverty
plovers	wing
plovers	stand
plovers	congregation
Q
quail	drift
quail	covey
quail	bevy
R
raccoons	gaze
ravens	unkindness
rhinoceroses	crash
rooks	parliament
rooks	building
S
salmon	run
salmon	draught
salmon	bind
sandpipers	fling
sea urchins	herd
seals	rookery
seals	pod
seals	herd
sheep	trip
sheep	parcel
sheep	mob
sheep	meinie
sheep	hurtle
sheep	herd
sheep	flock
sheep	drove
sheep	drift
sheep	down
sheldrake	dopping
snails	walk
snails	rout
snails	escargatoire
snakes	pit
snakes	nest
snakes	knot
snakes	den
snakes	bed
snipes	whisp or wisp
snipes	walk
sparrows	tribe
sparrows	meinie
sparrows	host
spiders	cluster or clutter
squirrels	scurry
squirrels	dray
squirrels	colony
starlings	murmuration
starlings	congregation
starlings	cloud
starlings	clattering
starlings	chattering
stoats	trip
stoats	pack
storks	phalanx
storks	mustering
storks	flight
swallows	gulp
swallows	flight
swans	whiting
swans	wedge
swans	team
swans	sownder
swans	lamentation
swans	herd
swans	game
swans	flight
swans	eyrar
swans	drift
swans	bevy
swans	bank
swifts	scream
swifts	flock
swine	trip
swine	drift
swine	doylt
T
teal	spring
tigers	streak
tigers	ambush
toads	nest
toads	knot
trout	hover
turkeys	rafter
turkeys	gang
turtle doves	pitying
turtle doves	dole or dule
turtles	nest
turtles	dole
turtles	bale
U
V
vipers	nest
W
walruses	pod
walruses	herd
waterfowl	raft
waterfowl	knob
waterfowl	bunch
weasels	pack
weasels	colony
whales	pod
whales	mob
whales	herd
whales	gam
wigeons	trip
wigeons	company
wildfowl	trip
wildfowl	plump
wildfowl	knob
wildfowl	bunch
wolves	rout or route
wolves	pack
wombats	wisdom
woodcocks	fall
woodpeckers	descent
wrens	herd
X
Y
Z
zebras	zeal
zebras	herd
zebras	dazzle
zebras	cohort