collective noun

noun
/kəˌlɛk.tɪv ˈnaʊn/

Definitions

  1. A noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals.

    • A hundred, a thousand, few, many, are to be considered as collective nouns, and distinguished as such, by the singular article.
    • British English tends more than American English to have plural agreement with collective nouns.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for collective noun. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA