Sentence examples for group noun from inspiring English sources

Pick your dismissive group noun of choice.

"What's a group noun for suitors?" asks Lady Rose in the new episode of Downton Abbey, in a rare display of wit.

How to we make this adjective into a group noun?

If we add the, we get a group noun: the powerless.

Which of these is not a group noun that is commonly made from an adjective?

When we add the to an adjective, we create a group noun that means 'people who are X,' where X is the adjective.

Collective nouns are often called group nouns.

We've seen that some activity nouns are uncountable, and some group nouns are uncountable.

Collective nouns, or group nouns, represent a number of things or people together.

WordNet is different from a common dictionary because it groups nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in cognitive synonyms sets called synsets, each one expressing a different concept.

The attitudes of fear, suspicion and doubt held on the part of these addressees was analysed as instantiating Affect: Security: negative, and it is framed not only by Affect: Inclination (would rather hear (these things) directly), but also as part of a comparative construction: rather [+verbal group + noun group] than [+noun group].