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collective noun

Syllables: col·lec·tive·noun/kəˌlɛk.tɪv ˈnaʊn/

collective noun noun: a noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals.

Noun

collective noun (plural collective nouns)

  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.1775, John Ash, The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, volume 1, London: Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry; and R. Baldwin in Pater-Noster Row, →OCLC, page 23
    • British English tends more than American English to have plural agreement with collective nouns.2008, Ron Cowan, The Teacher's Grammar of English with Answers
    Synonyms:
    collective, of assemblage, of multitude

collective noun meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Thai

collective noun in Tamil

கூட்டுப் பெயர்

collective noun in Tagalog

noun referring to a group of similar things
pangngalang palansak

collective noun in Thai

noun referring to a group of similar things
สมุหนาม sà-mù-hà-naam

Synonyms of collective noun

Forms of collective noun

pluralcollective nouns

Questions about collective noun

What does collective noun mean?
Collective noun means a noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals.
What is collective noun in Tamil?
Collective noun in Tamil is கூட்டுப் பெயர். See Collective noun meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is collective noun?
Collective noun is a noun.
How do you pronounce collective noun?
Collective noun is pronounced /kəˌlɛk.tɪv ˈnaʊn/.
What is the plural of collective noun?
The plural of collective noun is collective nouns.

Words near collective noun in the dictionary

  1. collective memories
  2. collective memory
  3. collective mode
  4. collective note
  5. collective notes
  6. collective noun
  7. collective nouns
  8. collective number
  9. collective numbers
  10. collective numeral
  11. collective numerals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collective noun (page history and authors); collective noun (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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