an army of ants
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- caterpillars, frogs, herring, insects
Subject · Animals → Insects & arachnids
Ants
A group of ants can be called: army · bike · colony · nest · swarm · soviet · bivouac
- Collective nouns
- 7
- Category
- Animals
- Subcategory
- Insects & arachnids
- High confidence
- 5
- Book of St Albans
- 0
Collective nouns for ants
a bike of ants
A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- bees, hornets, wasps
a colony of ants
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- badgers, bats, beavers, bees, beetles, penguins, chinchillas, mice, mustelids, rats +2 more
a nest of ants
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- bees, hornets, pheasants, rabbits, snakes, mice, termites, wasps
a swarm of ants
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- bees, beetles, bugs, butterflies, eels, flies, gnats, grasshoppers, moths, hornets +5 more
- Also spelled
- Swarme (1486)
a soviet of ants
- Confidence
- medium
- Attestation
- wiktionary-partially-cited
a bivouac of ants
- Context
- migratory feeders
- Confidence
- low
- Attestation
- wikipedia-uncited