Example of Collective Nouns in English (collective Nouns)

The collective nouns they are singular words that refer to a set, or a type of objects that exist together and are considered as a single unit. They represent the notion of plurality.

Examples of collective nouns in English:

1. Alphabet
2. Army (Army = set of soldiers)
3. Band (Band = set of musicians)
4. Bevy (= Herd)
5. Block (block = set of houses)
6. Delete (board = set of people who make a decision in a company)
7. Bouquet (Bouquet = flower set)
8. Brotherhood (Brotherhood, brotherhood = set of priests or monks)
9. Bunch (bunch = bunch of grapes)
10. Buttery (Pantry = food set)
11. Caravan (caravan = set of travelers traveling by land)
12. Catalog (Catalog = set of images or product announcements)
13. Cavalry (Cavalry = set of soldiers on horseback)
14. Cementery (Cemetery = Set of graves)
15. Census (Register = set of registered voters; in this case the s is not plural)
16. Chamber (Chamber = set of merchants)
17. Clan (= set of families)
18. class (= students of a classroom or school)
19. Clergy (Clergy = set of priests or pastors)
20. Clump (Grove = set of trees)
21. Code (Code = command set)
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22. College (College = meeting of scholars or magistrates)
23. Comic (Cartoon = set of drawings telling stories)
24. Convoy (= set of vehicles)
25. Costume (Costume = clothing set)
26. Country (Country = set of states and inhabitants)
27. Croad (Crowd = set of people)
28. Crockery (Dinnerware = plate set)
29. Deck (deck = set of deck cards)
30. Denture (Denture = set of teeth)
31. Dictionary (Dictionary = set of definitions)
32. Digging (Cava = set of wines)
33. Directory (Directory = address pool)
34. Drainage (Drainage = set of pipes)
35. Dray (= herd of squirrels)
36. Drove (Herd = set of sheep)
37. Encyclopaedia (Encyclopedia = set of definitions)
38. Family (Family = set of its members)
39. Federation (Federation = set of States that form a nation)
40. Fleet (Fleet = Set of vehicles (planes, cars, ships))
41. Flock (Flock = set of birds)
42. Gallery (Gallery = set of art pieces)
43. Gang (Gang = set of thugs)
44. Goatherd (Chivero = set of goats)
45. Graveyard (Cemetery = Set of graves)
46. Group (Group = set of things)
47. Growing (Sowing = set of plants)
48. Guerrilla = Mercenaries, group of soldiers or combatants
49. Guide (Guide = set of instructions)
50. Guild (Guild = group of people dedicated to the same professional or craft activity)
51. Hamlet (Hamlet = set of houses)
52. Hencoop (Chicken Coop = set of chickens)
53. Herd (Herd = set of animals)
54. History (History = set of historical facts)
55. Horde (Horde = set of armed people)
56. Horseherd (Caballada = set of horses)
57. Jail (Prison = set of prisoners)
58. Language (Language = set of words and expressions of a language)
59. Larder (Pantry = food set)
60. Legion (= set of mercenaries or volunteers)
61. Legislation = set of laws
62. Library (Library = set of books)
63. Litter (Litter = set of puppies of dogs and other animals)
64. Lot (Lot = set of products)
65. Lot (Heap = set of things)
66. Magisterium (Magisterium = set of teachers)
67. Majority (Majority = socially dominant set of people)
68. Mall (= shopping plaza)
69. Market (Market = set of traders)
70. Mass (group of people, Mass)
71. Meeting (Manifestation = group of people who protest)
72. Minority = set of few people
73. Mob (= Crowd, mob)
74. Navy (Armada = set of sea soldiers, sailors)
75. Net (Network = set of computers)
76. Network (Network = set of computers)
77. Pack (Pack = set of dogs or wolves)
78. Panel (= Jury, set of advisers)
79. Pankratium (= set of fighting techniques)
80. Pantheon (pantheon = Set of tombs)
81. Parking (Parking = set of parked cars)
82. Party (Party = set of people and politicians)
83. Pinery (= Field or set of pineapples)
84. Platoon (Platoon = set of troops)
85. Schedule (Agenda = set of data or scheduled activities)
86. School (school = set of fish)
87. Script (Script = Set of dialogues and annotations for plays or films.)
88. Sect (Sect = set of people)
89. Senate (senate = set of senators)
90. Serial (= numbered and continuous books on the same topic)
91. Series (= set of chapters that tell a television story)
92. Shoal (Shoal = set of fish)
93. Squadron (Squad = set of specialized soldiers)
94. Swarm
95. System (Apparatus = set of body organs)
96. Team (Team = set of athletes)
97. Theasure (Treasure = set of treasures)
98. Throng (Crowd, crowd)
99. Tissue (Tissue = set of organic cells that fulfill a function.)
100. train (Recua = set of pack animals)
101. Tribe (tribe = set of people belonging to an ethnic group)
102. troop (troop = Set of soldiers)
103. Troupe (Company = set of actors)
104. Wad (= bundle of papers, notes, etc.)