// n. A noun whose meaning is a group of individuals: committee, government, class. Collective nouns in British English are notable for their ability when singular to take either singular or plural verb agreement: The committee has made a decision or...

Semantically defined class of nouns that express a group or set of several members in terms of a single unit: cattle, herd, furniture, people, government. Some languages can form collective nouns with the help of affixes (e.g. German Berg...

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. For example, in the phrase "a pride of lions", pride is a collective noun. Most...