
Collective Nouns
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Apes |
a shrewdness |
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Asses |
a herd or pace |
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Badgers |
a cete |
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Bears |
a sloth or sleuth |
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Bees |
a hive, swarm, drift or bike |
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Birds |
a flock (flight), parcel, pod, fleet or dissimulation of small birds |
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Birds (aviary) |
a volary |
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Boar (wild) |
a sounder |
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Boys |
a blush |
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Buffalo |
a herd or gang |
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Cats |
a clowder or glaring |
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Cats (wild) |
a destruction |
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Cattle |
a herd or drove |
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Chickens |
a brood, cletch, clutch or peep |
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Choughs |
a chattering or clattering |
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Cobblers |
a drunkship |
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Colts |
a rag or rake |
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Cooks |
a hastiness |
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Coots |
a covert |
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Cranes |
a herd |
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Cubs |
a litter |
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Curlew |
a herd |
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Curs |
a cowardice |
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Deer |
a herd or mob |
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Dogs |
a pack or kennel |
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Dotterel |
a trip |
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Doves |
a flight, dole or piteousness |
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Ducks |
a raft, bunch or paddling (on water) |
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Ducks (wild) |
a team (in flight) |
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Dunlins |
a fling |
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Elephants |
a herd |
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Elk |
a herd or gang |
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Ferrets |
a business |
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Finches |
a charm or chirm |
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Fish |
a shoal or a run of fish (in motion) |
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Flies |
a cloud |
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Foresters |
a stalk |
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Foxes |
a skulk |
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Geese |
a gaggle or (in the air) a skein, team, wedge |
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Giraffes |
a herd |
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Goats |
a flock, herd or trip |
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Grouse |
a pack or covey |
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a husk or down |
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Hawks |
a cast (let fly) |
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Hermits |
an observance |
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Herons |
a siege |
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Horses |
a stud or haras (breeding) or a team |
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Hounds |
a kennel, pack, cry or mute |
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Insects |
a flight or swarm |
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Kangaroos |
a mob or troop |
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Kittens |
a kindle |
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Ladies |
a bevy |
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Lapwing |
a desert |
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Larks |
an exaltation or bevy |
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Leopards |
a leap |
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Lions |
a pride |
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Magpies |
a tiding |
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Mallard |
a sord or sute |
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Martens |
a richesse |
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Merchants |
a faith |
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Moles |
a labour |
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Monkeys |
a troop |
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Mules |
a barren |
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Nightingales |
a watch |
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Nuns |
a superfluity |
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Partridges |
a covey |
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Peacocks |
a muster |
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Pedlars |
a malapertness (impertinence) |
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Penguins |
a rookery |
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Pheasants |
a head or nye |
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Pigeons |
a kit (flying together) |
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Pigs |
a herd |
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Piglets |
a litter |
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Plovers |
a stand, wing or congregation |
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Pochards |
a rush or flight |
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Porpoises |
a herd, pod or school |
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Prisoners |
a pity |
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Ptarmigan |
a covey |
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Pups |
a litter |
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Quail |
a bevy or drift |
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Racehorses |
a string |
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Ravens |
an unkindness |
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Roes |
a bevy |
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Rooks |
a parliament or building |
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Ruffs |
a hill |
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Seals |
a herd, rookery or pod |
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Sheep |
a flock, herd, drift or trip |
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Sheldrake |
a dopping |
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Snipe |
a wisp or walk |
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Sparrows |
a host |
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Starlings |
a murmuration |
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Swallows |
a flight |
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Swans |
a game or herd; a wedge of swans in the air |
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Swine |
a herd; a sounder of tame swine, a drift of wild swine |
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Taverners |
a glozing or fawning |
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Teal |
a spring |
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Waterfowl |
a bunch or knob |
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Whales |
a school, herd, gam or pod; a grind of bottle-nosed whales |
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Wigeon |
a company or trip |
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Wildfowl |
a bunch, trip or plump or a knob of less than 30 wildfowl |
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Wolves |
a pack or trout |
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Women |
a gaggle |
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Woodcock |
a fall |
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Wrens |
a herd |