collective noun in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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I.collective [Am kəˈlɛktɪv, Brit kəˈlɛktɪv] ADJ usu attr

II.collective [Am kəˈlɛktɪv, Brit kəˈlɛktɪv] N

noun [Am naʊn, Brit naʊn] N

collective noun in the PONS Dictionary

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I adore these collective nouns and the thrill of spotting something new.
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There are a number of collective nouns for a group of priests.
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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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Although many languages treat collective nouns as singular, in others they may be interpreted as plural.
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There are 19 collective nouns for economists.
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What's the collective noun for a brace of restaurant critics in a flop-sweat of reputational panic?
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It has yet to be decided on what the collective noun should be for a group of stadium announcers.
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Many species have multiple collective nouns associated with them.
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The local paper found that the collective noun for the clan should be a plague!
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That sounded a bit odd, so we started to play around with collective nouns.
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