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A barrel of guns
A battery of flashlights
A body of morticians
A bowl of football games
A box of prize fighters
A bundle of babies
A carload of clowns
A case of lawyers
A cast of fishermen
A closet of acrophobics
A collection of churches
A company of chaperones
A complex of psychoanalysts
A crowd of crows
A cup of trophies
A dash of sprinters
A deck of cardinals
A deck of sailors
A division of mathematicians
A drove of old cars
A fleet of runners
A flush of toilets
A glut of doughnuts
A gross of pornographers
A hamper of helpers
A handful of palmists
A hill of beans
A host of emcees
A jar of Quakers
A kettle of drums
A list of ships
A litter of slobs
A loaf of bums
A lot of car dealers
A mass of priests
A measure of rulers
A mess of army cooks
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A mound of baseball pitchers
A number of counts
A pack of suitcases
A pan of sightseers
A party of fraternity men
A peck of chickens
A pile of carpets
A pinch of pickpockets
A plethora of pedantries
A plot of conspirators
A pot of poker players
A pound of hammers
A purse of kisses
A quota of sayings
A raft of swimmers
A range of stoves
A rash of dermatologists
A ream of bureaucrats
A round of wheels
A run of cowards
A run of noses
A rush of fraternity men
A sack of quarterbacks
A sack of vandals
A school of teachers
A score of musicians
A sea of bishops
A shower of meteorologists
A slew of murderers
A slug of fists
A spray of cats
A stack of librarians
A string of violins
A sweep of brooms
A trunk of elephants
A volume of speakers
A wealth of millionaires
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here seems to be a collective noun for
just about any group—like a pride of lions, a ream of paper, a stand of trees, or a stack of
bibles. Some are oddly named and imply no quantity—like “a murder of crows.”
Wouldn’t it be more logically to call such a group “a crowd of crows?”
Here are some other collective nouns that would make sense.