When learning a new language, one of the first things you learn are the different collective nouns for things and places. These words are used to describe a group of items or people as a single entity. Here is a list of 50 collective nouns for things and places in English.
Collective Nouns for Things and Places
| a chest of drawers |
| a heap of sand |
| a nest of rumors |
| a battery of guns |
| a cellar of wine |
| a series of events |
| a chain/range of mountains |
| a palette of colors |
| an atlas of maps |
| a confederation/union of states |
| a sheaf of arrows |
| a group/chain of islands |
| a ring of keys |
| a string of pearls |
| a bale of cotton |
| a budget of papers |
| a pair of shoes |
| a book of exercises |
| a cluster of stars |
| a fleet of lorries |
| a fleet of ships |
| a stack of hay |
| a network of roads |
| a rabble of remedies |
| a set of tools |
| a catalogue of goods |
| an armada of ships |
| a batch of breads |
| a gallery of pictures |
| a line of cars |
| a bundle of sticks |
| a glossary of words/phrases |
| a network of computers |
| a bank of circuits |
| a bank of monitors |
| a library of books |
| a pack of cards |
| an album of photographs |
| an alliance of countries |
| a clutch of eggs |
| a list of names |
| a shower of rain |
| a babel of words |
| a museum of art |
| an anthology of poems/prose |
| a block of flats |
| a box of cigars |
| a flight of stairs |
| a bunch of books/keys |
| a whirl of windmills |
| an agenda of tasks |