a flight of angels
A group of angels or types of angels, e.g. seraphim, cherubim.
- Subject
- angel (angels)
- Category
- Supernatural → Divine beings
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
Collective noun
flight
Also spelled Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
What do you call a group of angels, birds, butterflies or 8 others?
a flight of angels · a flight of birds · a flight of butterflies · …
- Used for
- 11 subjects
- Categories
- Animals, Supernatural, Things
- Subcategories
- Birds, Divine beings, Insects & arachnids, Objects
- Type
- Generic
- Best confidence
- high
Definition
- A group of angels or types of angels, e.g. seraphim, cherubim.
- A group of birds, especially doves (pigeons), goshawks or swallows.
- A series of stairs between landings.
Other senses of the word: flight on Wiktionary
Usage as a collective noun
a flight of birds
A group of birds, especially doves (pigeons), goshawks or swallows.
- Subject
- bird (birds)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a flight of butterflies
- Subject
- butterfly (butterflies)
- Category
- Animals → Insects & arachnids
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a flight of doves
A group of birds, especially doves (pigeons), goshawks or swallows.
- Subject
- dove (doves)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source, wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
7 sources
- Wikipedia - List of animal names
- Oxford Dictionaries - What do you call a group of ...?
- Zoological Society of San Diego - Animal group names
- Oxford University Press - AskOxford: D
- Wiktionary - flight
- Wiktionary - Appendix:English collective nouns
- Book of Saint Albans (1486) - The companyes of bestys & foules
a flight of goshawks
A group of birds, especially doves (pigeons), goshawks or swallows.
- Subject
- goshawk (goshawks)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source, wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a flight of hawks
- Subject
- hawk (hawks)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a flight of herons
- Subject
- heron (herons)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a flight of pigeons
A group of birds, especially doves (pigeons), goshawks or swallows.
- Subject
- pigeon (pigeons)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a flight of stairs
A series of stairs between landings.
- Subject
- stairs (stairs)
- Category
- Things → Objects
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a flight of swallows
A group of birds, especially doves (pigeons), goshawks or swallows.
- Subject
- swallow (swallows)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source, wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a flight of cormorants
- Subject
- cormorant (cormorants)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- low
- Attestation
- wikipedia-uncited
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)