250+ Collective Nouns in English
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In this post, I am sharing 250+ Collective Nouns in English which are very very important for English learners. If you want to master your English communication skills, you should learn these collective nouns.
250+ Collective Nouns in English
| 1 | A flock/pride of ostriches |
| 2 | A flock/run of poultry |
| 3 | A flock/stud of mares |
| 4 | A flock/tribe/herd of goats |
| 5 | A flotilla of swordfish |
| 6 | A flurry/stand of flamingoes |
| 7 | A gaggle/flock of geese |
| 8 | A gang of boys |
| 9 | A gang of laborers (Amer.) |
| 10 | A gang of prisoners |
| 11 | A gang of slaves |
| 12 | A gang of slaves |
| 13 | A gang of workmen |
| 14 | A gang/herd of moose |
| 15 | A gang/pack of thieves |
| 16 | A gang/team of labourers (Brit.) |
| 17 | A gathering of clans |
| 18 | A glossary of difficult words |
| 19 | A grind of bottle-nosed whales |
| 20 | A group/chain/an archipelago of islands |
| 21 | A grove of bayonets |
| 22 | A haggle of vendors |
| 23 | A hail of bullets |
| 24 | A hamlet of houses in a village |
| 25 | A harvest/sheaf of wheat |
| 26 | A heap of trash |
| 27 | A heap/mass of ruins |
| 28 | A heap/pile of stones |
| 29 | A herbarium of plants |
| 30 | A herd of alpacas |
| 31 | A herd of antelope(s) |
| 32 | A herd of bison |
| 33 | A herd of buffalo |
| 34 | A herd of cattle |
| 35 | A herd of chamois |
| 36 | A herd of cows |
| 37 | A herd of curlews |
| 38 | A herd of deer |
| 39 | A herd of eland(s) |
| 40 | A herd of elephants |
| 41 | A herd of llamas |
| 42 | A herd of ponies |
| 43 | A herd of sea urchins |
| 44 | A herd of seahorses |
| 45 | A herd of wildebeest(s) |
| 46 | A herd of wrens |
| 47 | A herd of zebra |
| 48 | A herd/drove of asses |
| 49 | A herd/drove of swine |
| 50 | A herd/drove/drift of hogs |
| 51 | A herd/gang of elk |
| 52 | A herd/litter of pigs |
| 53 | A herd/mustering of storks |
| 54 | A herd/pace of donkeys |
| 55 | A herd/pod of walruses |
| 56 | A herd/school/bloat/crash of hippopotamuses |
| 57 | A herd/siege/sedge of cranes |
| 58 | A herd/sounder of boars |
| 59 | A herd/stud of hart |
| 60 | A herd/tower/corps of giraffe(s) |
| 61 | A hoard of gold |
| 62 | A horde of children |
| 63 | A horde of hamsters |
| 64 | A horde of nomads |
| 65 | A horde of savages |
| 66 | A horde/swarm/cloud of gnats |
| 67 | A host/choir of angels |
| 68 | A host/company of angel fish |
| 69 | A house of senators |
| 70 | A hover of trout |
| 71 | A kindle/litter of kittens |
| 72 | A knab/knot of toads |
| 73 | A layer of soil |
| 74 | A lead/skulk of foxes |
| 75 | A leap of leopards |
| 76 | A line of rulers |
| 77 | A list of names |
| 78 | A litter of cubs |
| 79 | A litter of puppies |
| 80 | A litter/farrow of piglets |
List of 250+ Collective Nouns in English
| 81 | A mall of shops |
| 82 | A menagerie of wild animals |
| 83 | A mess of iguanas |
| 84 | A mint of money |
| 85 | A mob of disorderly people |
| 86 | A mob of hooligans |
| 87 | A mob of rioters |
| 88 | A mob of ruffians |
| 89 | A mob of wallabies |
| 90 | A mob/herd/troop of kangaroos |
| 91 | A monastery of monks |
| 92 | A murder of lawyers |
| 93 | A muster/pride of peacocks |
| 94 | A nest of mice |
| 95 | A nest of rumors/rumours (Brit.) |
| 96 | A nest of vipers |
| 97 | A network of computers |
| 98 | A nursery/gaze of raccoons |
| 99 | A pack of cards (Brit.) |
| 100 | A pack of cigarettes (Amer.) |
| 101 | A pack of coyotes |
| 102 | A pack of foxhounds |
| 103 | A pack of hounds |
| 104 | A pack of lies |
| 105 | A pack of rascals |
| 106 | A pack of wolves |
| 107 | A pack/colony of weasels |
| 108 | A pack/kennel of dogs |
| 109 | A pack/leash of greyhounds |
| 110 | A pack/sute of bloodhounds |
| 111 | A packet of cigarettes (Brit.) |
| 112 | A pair of shoes |
| 113 | A panel of experts |
| 114 | A panel of jurymen |
| 115 | A pantheon of gods |
| 116 | A parliament/rookery of rooks |
| 117 | A parliament/stare of owls |
| 118 | A party/gang/body of men |
| 119 | A party/group of visitors |
| 120 | A patrol/posse of policemen |
| 121 | A peal of bells |
| 122 | A picket of strikers |
| 123 | A pile/heap of leaves |
| 124 | A pile/heap of rubbish |
| 125 | A pile/shelf/library of books |
| 126 | A plague of diseases |
| 127 | A pocket of oranges |
| 128 | A pocket of potatoes |
| 129 | A pod of peas |
| 130 | A pod of pelicans |
| 131 | A pool of typists |
| 132 | A pride/troop of lion(s) |
| 133 | A queue of voters |
| 134 | A race/rag/rake of colts |
| 135 | A range of hills |
| 136 | A range/chain of mountains |
| 137 | A rasp of guinea fowl |
| 138 | A real/roll of film |
| 139 | A ream of paper |
| 140 | A reel of thread |
| 141 | A roll of banknotes |
| 142 | A rookery/colony of penguins |
| 143 | A rope/pocket of onions |
| 144 | A rope/string of pearls |
| 145 | A rosary of quotations |
| 146 | A row of houses |
| 147 | A scattering/siege of herons |
| 148 | A school of cod |
| 149 | A school/pod of dolphins |
| 150 | A school/pod of porpoises |
| 151 | A school/pod of whales |
| 152 | A school/shoal of mackerel |
| 153 | A scolding of seamstresses |
| 154 | A scourge of mosquitoes |
| 155 | A sedge/siege of bitterns |
| 156 | A series/chain of events |
| 157 | A set of bowls |
| 158 | A set of china |
| 159 | A set of clubs |
| 160 | A set of false teeth |
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| 161 | A set of glasses |
| 162 | A set of golf clubs |
| 163 | A set of rules |
| 164 | A set of sails |
| 165 | A set of teeth |
| 166 | A set of utensils |
| 167 | A set/kit of tools |
| 168 | A sheaf of grain |
| 169 | A sheaf/harvest of corn |
| 170 | A sheaf/quiver of arrows |
| 171 | A shoal of pilchards |
| 172 | A shoal/family of sardines |
| 173 | A shoal/run of salmon |
| 174 | A shoal/school of fish |
| 175 | A shock of hair |
| 176 | A shower of blows |
| 177 | A shower of rain |
| 178 | A shrewdness/troop of apes |
| 179 | A shrubbery of shrubs |
| 180 | A shush of librarians |
| 181 | A skein of geese (in flight) |
| 182 | A skein of wild geese in flight |
| 183 | A slate of candidates |
| 184 | A sloth of bears |
| 185 | A sneer of butlers |
| 186 | A spawn/ phalanx of umbrellas |
| 187 | A squadron/flight/fleet of aeroplanes (Brit.) |
| 188 | A stack of journals |
| 189 | A stack of plates |
| 190 | A stack of timber |
| 191 | A stack of wood |
| 192 | A stack/bale of hay |
| 193 | A staff of employees |
| 194 | A staff of servants |
| 195 | A staff of teachers |
| 196 | A staff of workers |
| 197 | A string/rope of beads |
| 198 | A suite of furniture |
| 199 | A suite of rooms |
| 200 | A superfluity/convent of nuns |
| 201 | A surfeit of skunks |
| 202 | A swarm of eels |
| 203 | A swarm of flies |
| 204 | A swarm/flight/rainbow of butterflies |
| 205 | A swarm/hive of bees |
| 206 | A swarm/nest of hornets |
| 207 | A swarm/plague/cloud of locusts |
| 208 | A tabernacle of bakers |
| 209 | A team of flying ducks |
| 210 | A team of footballers |
| 211 | A team of players |
| 212 | A team/stud of horses |
| 213 | A tiding/tittering/congregation of magpies |
| 214 | A tray of peaches |
| 215 | A tribe of Indians |
| 216 | A tribe of natives |
| 217 | A tribe/menagerie of animals |
| 218 | A troop of lemurs |
| 219 | A troop of scouts |
| 220 | A troop/band of gorillas |
| 221 | A troop/cavalcade of horsemen |
| 222 | A troop/congress of baboons |
| 223 | A troop/tribe/barrel of monkeys |
| 224 | A troubling/glint of goldfish |
| 225 | A troupe of artistes |
| 226 | A troupe of performers |
| 227 | A troupe of shrimps |
| 228 | A troupe/group of dancers |
| 229 | A tuft of grass |
| 230 | A wardrobe/suit/outfit of clothes |
250+ Collective Nouns in English
| 231 | A watch of nightingales |
| 232 | A wealth of information |
| 233 | A worship of writers |
| 234 | An agenda of tasks |
| 235 | An album of autographs |
| 236 | An album of photographs |
| 237 | An ambush of widows |
| 238 | An ambush/streak of tigers |
| 239 | An anthology of poems |
| 240 | An anthology of prose |
| 241 | An anthology/collection of stories |
| 242 | An argument of architects |
| 243 | An argument of wizards |
| 244 | An argumentation of historians |
| 245 | An army of caterpillars |
| 246 | An army/colony of frogs |
| 247 | An army/regiment/company/division/brigade/battalion of soldiers |
| 248 | An army/shoal of herring(s) |
| 249 | An array of hedgehogs |
| 250 | An array/rainbow of colors/colours (Brit.) |
| 251 | An arsenal of guns |
| 252 | An assembly of clergy |
| 253 | An assembly of persons |
| 254 | An assembly/class of pupils |
| 255 | An atlas of maps |
| 256 | An attack of aliens |
| 257 | An audience of listeners |
| 258 | An embassy of diplomats |
| 259 | An empire of queens |
| 260 | An intrusion of cockroaches |
| 261 | An orchard of fruit trees |
| 262 | An unction of undertakers |
| 263 | An unkindness of ravens |
| 264 | Field of crops |
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