an unkindness of crows
- Subject
- crow (crows)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Vnkyndnes (1486)
Collective noun
unkindness
Also spelled Vnkyndnes (1486)
What do you call a group of crows or ravens?
- Used for
- 2 subjects
- Categories
- Animals
- Subcategories
- Birds
- Type
- Specific
- Best confidence
- high
Definition
- A flock of ravens or sometimes crows.
Other senses of the word: unkindness on Wiktionary
Usage as a collective noun
an unkindness of ravens
- Subject
- raven (ravens)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source, wikipedia-cited
- Also spelled
- Vnkyndnes (1486)
5 sources
- Wikipedia - List of animal names
- Elliot Stock - The Boke of Saint Albans
- Oxford Dictionaries - What do you call a group of ...?
- Country Life - Collective nouns for birds: Why we call it a murder of crows, murmuration of starlings and a conspiracy of ravens
- Book of Saint Albans (1486) - The companyes of bestys & foules