Below is a list of commonly used collective nouns for objects, fruits, plants and other miscellaneous things.
Some of these collective nouns are very old, dating back to medieval times, while others are fairly new. Not many people use a ‘moan’ of lamantations anymore, but a ‘cluster’ of computers has never been more relevant.
If you know of any other collective nouns that should be added to this list, use the comments box and the bottom of this page.
| Item | Collective Nouns |
| Aircraft | Flight, Wing |
| Angels | Choir, Chorus,Flight, Host, Pinhead |
| Apples | Bushel |
| Arrows | Quiver |
| Artillery | Battery |
| Asteroids | Belt |
| Bananas | Bunch, Comb |
| Beans | Hill |
| Bells | Peal, Change, Carillons |
| Bills/Notes | Wad |
| Books | Library |
| Bread | Batch |
| Canyons | Maze |
| Cars | Fleet, Mayhem, Stack |
| Cards | Deck, Hand, Pack |
| Chairs | Fold |
| Cigarettes | Packet |
| Circuits | Bank |
| Clothes | Suit |
| Clouds | Soufflé |
| Coins | Roll, Roleau |
| Computers | Cluster, Network (when linked) |
| Condiments | Accompaniment |
| Corn | Sheaf, Shock (pile of stalks) |
| Cymbals | Sign |
| Diamond | Cluster |
| Dice | Luck |
| Dictionaries | Meaning |
| Documents | Dossier, Wealth |
| Dominoes | Falling |
| Drinks | Round |
| Drugs | Cocktail |
| Drums | Kettle |
| Dung | Pile |
| Eggs | Clutch |
| Errands | Hassle |
| Estimations | Bout |
| Flowers | Bunch, Bouquet |
| Footsteps | Patter |
| Furniture | Suite |
| Gears | Rack |
| Ghosts | Fright |
| Gloves | Elicat |
| Gods | Pantheon |
| Grass | Tuft |
| Grapes | Bunch |
| Grits | Mess |
| Gunships | Hailstorm |
| Hair | Lock, Tuz, Wig |
| Hammers | Morning |
| Harps | Twangle |
| Helicopters | Hover |
| Hills | Undulation |
| Icebergs | Crush, Drift |
| Impediments | Vagary |
| Information | Wealth |
| Islands | Archipelago, Chain, Group |
| Jewels | Cache |
| Keys | Ring |
| Knots | Cluster, Medusa |
| Lamentations | Moan |
| Lavatories | Flush |
| Laws (bad) | Strangle |
| Leaves | Autumn |
| Lines | Pencil |
| Locks (on a canal) | Flight |
| Lorries | Convoy, Fleet |
| Machine guns | Nest |
| Maps | Atlas |
| Money | Cache, Roll, Rouleau, Wad |
| Monitors | Bank |
| Mountains | Range |
| Nouns | Collective, Propriety |
| Objects | Collection |
| Orchids | Coterie |
| Ovoids | Metamorphosis |
| Palindromes | Tenet |
| Paper | Pad, Ream |
| Particulars | Bill |
| Pearls | Rope, String |
| Peas | Pods |
| Pistols | Brace (two pistols) |
| Planes | Stack |
| Pleasure | Glut, Guilt |
| Poems | Anthology |
| Pottage | Mess |
| Puddles | Splash |
| Puns | Groan |
| Reasons | Rainbow |
| Rebuttals | Quiver |
| Reeds | Clump |
| Ribs | Rack |
| Riches | Embarrassment |
| Rubbish | Heap, Pile |
| Salt | Lot |
| Satellites | Constellation |
| Second thoughts | Clutch |
| Shells | Midden |
| Ships | Armada, Fleet, Flotilla |
| Shoelaces | Knot |
| Shoes | Pair, Scandal |
| Silk Screens | Pull |
| Similes | Superfluity |
| Smelt | Quantity |
| Software | Crash |
| Spatulas | Beautification |
| Sphincters | Clench |
| Stairs | Flight |
| Stamps | Collection |
| Stars | Cluster, Constellation, Galaxy, Wonder |
| Steps | Flight |
| Sticks | Fagot |
| Sub-atomic particles | Minuscule |
| Submarines | Pack, Wolfpack |
| Suitcases | Pack |
| Tanks | Clank, Clatter |
| Tarts | Jam |
| Tasks | Agenda |
| Teddy bears | Hug |
| Tests | Battery |
| Things | Bunch, Cluster |
| Tomorrows | Promise |
| Tongues | Convention, Jagger |
| Toys | Assembly |
| Tranquilizers | Equanimity |
| Trash | Heap, Pile |
| Trees | Clump, Coupe, Forest, Grove, Stand, Stillness, Thicket, Wood |
| Tools | Kit, Set |
| Trucks | Convoy |
| Trumpets | Flourish |
| Truths | Pity |
| Tubas | Tumult |
| Turds | Steam |
| Twitches | Embarrassment |
| Umbrellas | Phalanx |
| Wagers | Book |
| Weed | Stash |
| Wheat | Sheaf |
| Willows | Bed |
| Windmills | Tilt |
| Winnings | Purse |
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is it has A ____ of fruits ? i need to know it for my homework …
bowl or crate 🙂
A bowl of fruit
Basket of fruits
A basket of fruits
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What is the collective noun for windows?
Collective nouns for “windows”
A shimmer of windows.
A shatter of windows.
A streak of windows.
Whoever you are, what is the collective noun for turtle eggs and pictures? ?
the collective noun of window is that
we can say it “air” or “wind”……
what are the collective noun of guns,soil,lies,pearls,relics,clothes?
Even me, i am looking for lies Madhav Mehta
A tissue of lies.
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Collective nouns roses what?
A bouquet of roses
I’ve searched for a collective noun for a group of (bi)cyclists, but found none. While on a ride today, the subject of collective nouns came up, and my friend and I were noodling the idea of creating one for cyclists. While peloton/field/pack/bunch are terms used in road-racing to identify, or refer to, the functionally-necessary close packing of such cyclists during a race, there doesn’t appear to be a collective noun for cyclists of the more ordinary kind (e.g. commuters, people who have chosen the bicycle as their principle means of transport, etc.). I suggest, therefore, “an index of (bi)cyclists)”.
A commute of cyclists
1) Groups of plants
2) lot of wealth
3) lot of grains
4) Group of people watching films or match
An audience of people who are watching a movie or match
What is collective noun for a s_a_k hay ? My school holidays almost finish and I need to do my hw faster !
What is the collective nouns for two___cheese?i need to know for my homework
A stack of hay, i.e., to answer your question. It is also a bundle, truss or bale of hay.
this isn’t telling me collective noun for geese and many more .I wann’a it for my summer vacaation homewark. please tell me that
a hand of bananas
a bunch of fives (= fist)
flock of geese
A gaggle, flock, skein, wedge, clutch, etc. of geese.
A gaggle of geese
What is gaggle?
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a set of… a…. of stones
A_________________ of rain
A shower of rain
What food or plant makes up a cluster?
What’s the collective noun for wool, people, strawberries, weather, tunes, nerves, treatment, hair, clothes, notes, imprisonment, poultry, wine, directors and thanks, I need it for hw and I’m in year 5.
a field of strawberries
This is quite helpful but and more, especially with the list I gave.
the collective for bananas is a hand
a group of bicycles is a wobble
What is the collective noun of rooms
What is collective nouns for motorcars?
I love collective nouns
A………. Of aeroplanes
A………..of actors?
Please I need answer now…thanks
A hangar of airplanes and a cast of actors
A company of actors too
Collective noun for a group of ‘surveyors’, we believe ‘rabble’ works quite well – don’t know if there is actually a term for one?
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I really need 2 know what the collective noun is 4 beads. plz hlp ppl. 🙁 really need 2 know
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My homework is to find the most unusual collective noun but I looked for it like for a hour but I just found 3…
But after finding this I got 30 really good unusual collective noun.
Collective nouns newspaper what
Trees, records, rascals and bottles.I need answers!!!!
a___________ of rooms…please help…
A suite
I needed puppies, drawers and beads for my homework. So next time I want to see it.
a house of rooms
a chest of drawers
a litter or piddle of puppies
a sting, row, rope or pile of beads
Collective noun for fruits, insects, whales
A ——— of music
A SERIES of rooms…
A __________ of powder
collective noun for sausage rolls or foreign students?
an abuse of sausage rolls? an annoyance of foreign students?
It is very very helpful to student’s and parents.
noun for lollies?
a reel of? a block of? a pail of? a coil of?
very smart…snooze…
Nice. BUT I DON’T GET THE COLLECTIVE NOUN OF ROOM
I wish there was a rabit… i need it for my homework=(
My family has a………… of pictures in the album.
A…………… of sugar is added to the tea
This is really helpful
Plz any1tl me… A______ of irones
Whatvis the collective noun of soldiers…???please tell me fast for my homework.
Sorry what is
a gaggle of geese
A flush of toilets
Coool it helps me in mah waec examination
what is for students and judges?
It’s good but can I get the collective noun of cotton,chicks,china,actors,squadron,insects,a peal of________,a bench of _______,a batch of_______,a troupe of____________,a clutch of __________.please
what is the collective noun for a ____ of trolleys?
Wala lang man A ———– of oranges
what is the collective noun for cloth
The______in this shop are very helpful
A ________ of objects.
cant find rags boo
A “collection” of pictures?
Two “blocks of” cheese?
A lump of sugar.
The “staff” in this shop are very helpful.
very good!
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A sheaf of arrows
A heap / pile of papers
What is the collective noun for schools, please tell
A chest of what?I need it for my studies.
What is the collective noun for a grouping of different but related things?
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