(grammar) A noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals. Examples: a school of fish, a pride of lions.

plural of noun phrase

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

(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.

(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.

(linguistics) A noun that functions as an adjective

(grammar) The plural form of a common noun / (grammar) A noun that inherently refers to multiple items