The name of an assembly or gathering of similar things or people.

The name of something that contains many individual things or people. Examples: army, fleet, hundred.

(grammar) a subordinate clause which functions as a subject or object of the main clause

plural of concrete noun

(linguistics) A grammatical category similar to gender in which nouns may be organised according to meaning, such as sex, animacy or shape. This is a prominent feature of some of the world's languages, notably the Bantu language family.

plural of collective noun

plural of mass noun

plural of agent noun

(grammar) A noun that modifies another noun (thus functioning adjectivally) and that is optional (that is, it can be removed without affecting the grammar and essential meaning of the sentence); it may be a single word or a compound noun or noun phrase.

(grammar) A noun that modifies another noun attributively and that is optional (that is, it can be removed without affecting the grammar of the sentence); a noun used as an adjective.