0 a noun that describes a group of things or people as a unit: --
"Family" and "flock" are examples of collective nouns.
I think "panoply" is probably the best collective noun to use in connection with our hospital matrons.
I now discover that the collective noun for buyers and sellers is a "concourse".
It is always unfortunate when we have a collective noun which is used frequently, because it tends to become stylised in people's minds.
I am trying to think of a collective noun for " wet".
It is not so much a plural but a collective noun, and can you not perfectly well have, "livestock, animal" and the singular after it?
But what to use for the collective noun?
Accordingly, compatibility with a plural verb will no longer be considered to be a necessary characteristic of a collective noun.
In other words, the base is no longer a collective noun when the plural marker is added.
