An inflation of alpacas, a gaze of raccoons, a conflagration of eagles, a knot of toads, a dormobile of camels, a charm of hummingbirds.
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects, where 'objects' can be people, animals, inanimate things, concepts, or other things. Most collective nouns encountered in everyday speech are mundane and are not specific to one kind of constituent object.
A list of collective nouns A-H.
A list of collective nouns I-Z.
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