collective noun in the PONS Dictionary

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Collective nouns are interesting studies, such as the pride of lions and gaggle of geese.
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There are 19 collective nouns for economists.
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I adore these collective nouns and the thrill of spotting something new.
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There isn't even an official collective noun for a large group of fictional, furry creatures - although a few derogatory labels do spring to mind.
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I understood something about the function of language, why being able to diagram sentences was important, why understanding partitives and collective nouns was important.
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Originally, "-h" by itself was a suffix used to form feminine nouns (originally, perhaps these were collective nouns).
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Formally, collective noun forms such as a group of people are represented by second-order variables, or by first-order variables standing for sets (which are well-defined objects in mathematics and logic).
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Most collective nouns in everyday speech, such as group, are mundane and are not specific to a kind of object.
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Nominally singular pronouns can be collective nouns taking plural verbs, according to the same rules that apply to other collective nouns.
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Within the rational class there are further subdivisions between masculine, feminine and collective nouns.
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