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collective noun

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collective noun

Singular word used to refer to a group (‘family’, ‘team’, ‘committee’, ‘audience’). Collective nouns usually take singular verbs or pronouns, but this depends on the context. There are special collective nouns for groups of certain animals; ‘a pride of lions’, for example.
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