Collective nouns list
Subject | Collective noun |
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bowls | A congress, flange, rumpus, or troupe of bowls |
bacteria | A colony of bacteria (a culture if laboratory-grown) |
badgers | A cete, clan, or colony of badgers |
bakers | An aroma, tabernacle of bakers |
bananas | A hand, bunch of bananas |
bankers | A wunch of bankers |
Baptists | An immersion of Baptists |
barbels | A shoal of barbels |
barbers | A babble of barbers |
barbers, military | A crew of military barbers |
barflies | A buzz of barflies |
barons | A thought of barons |
barracuda | A battery of barracuda |
barristers | A boast, wiggery of barristers |
bass | A shoal, fleet of bass |
bastards | A shower of bastards |
bats | A colony, cloud, cauldron of bats |
bayonets | A grove of bayonets |
beans | A hill of beans |
bears | A maul, pack, sloth, or sleuth of bears |
beasts | A nobility of beasts |
beauties | A bevy, or harmony of beauties |
beavers | A colony, family, or lodge of beavers |
bees | A bike, bike cast, cluster, erst, drift, game, grist, hive, hum, rabble, stand, or swarm of bees |
beggar | A coster, guild, parliament of beggars |
bells | A peal, change, or carillon of bells |
bills | A wad of bills |
birds | A congregation, flock, fleet, parcel, pod, or roost of birds |
birds, large group | A colony of birds (roosting in large numbers) |
birds, small | A dissimulation of birds (small birds) |
birds, in flight | A drift, or flight of birds (in flight) |
birds, migrating | A rush of birds (migrating) |
birds, aviary | A volery of birds (in an aviary) |
bishops | A sea, bench, or psalter of bishops |
bison | A herd, gang of bison |
bitterns | A pretence, sedge or siege of bitterns |
blackbirds | A cloud, flock, grind, merl of blackbirds |
blackfish | A grind of blackfish |
blankets | A swelter of blankets |
bloodhounds | A sute of bloodhounds |
blossoms | A flourish of blossoms |
boars | A herd, or singular of boars |
boars, wild | A sounder of wild boars |
bobolinks | A chain of bobolinks (polygamous bird, Ricebird) |
bomblets | A cluster of bomblets |
books | A library, pile, compendium of books |
boors | A rood of boors |
borg | A collective, hive of borg |
bowlers | A keg of bowlers |
bowls | A nest of bowl's |
boys | A blush, leer, passel or rascal of boys |
brats | A passel of brats |
bread | A batch of bread |
brush, wood | A bavin of brush (wood) |
bucks | A brace, clash, herd of bucks |
budgerigars | A chatter, flock of budgerigars |
buffalo | A gang, herd, or obsinancy of buffalo |
bullfinches | A bellowing, lowing of bullfinches |
bullocks | A drove of bullocks |
burritos | A pace of burritos |
business angels | A bevy of business angels |
bustards | A flock, wake of bustards |
butterflies | A flight, flutter, kaleidoscope, rabble, swarm, or wing of butterflies |
butterfly fish | A school of butterfly fish |
buzzards | A wake, kettle, pack of buzzards |