Angry Orchard's David Sipes Gets Samuel Adams to Try Cider. PORTLAND, Ore. ( TheStreet) -- When you grab a pint in almost any of New England's pubs, cider sits right beside stouts and lagers as a drink of choice. It's not a beer substitute, it's not there just for beer haters or vegans -- it just is.
collective noun. n. 1. (Grammar) a noun that is singular in form but that refers to a group of people or things. Usage: Collective nouns are usually used with singular verbs: the family is on holiday; General Motors is mounting a big sales campaign.
A collective noun is a noun that can be singular in form whilst referring to a group of people or things. Collective nouns are sometimes confused with mass nouns.ome collective nouns can stand alone, such as Britain has an army, but if the collective noun army is used to mean something other than an organized military force, you can say things like an army of women or an army of ants, and even an army of one.