Collective noun

watch

Also spelled watche (1486)

What do you call a group of nightingales?

a watch of nightingales

Used for
1 subject
Categories
Animals
Subcategories
Birds
Type
Specific
Best confidence
high

Definition

  1. A group of nightingales.

Other senses of the word: watch on Wiktionary

Usage as a collective noun

a watch of nightingales

Book of St Albans
Subject
nightingale (nightingales)
Category
Animals → Birds
Confidence
high
Attestation
historical-source, wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
Also spelled
watche (1486)
7 sources
  1. Wikipedia - List of animal names
  2. Elliot Stock - The Boke of Saint Albans
  3. Oxford Dictionaries - What do you call a group of ...?
  4. J. White - The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
  5. Wiktionary - watch
  6. Wiktionary - Appendix:English collective nouns
  7. Book of Saint Albans (1486) - The companyes of bestys & foules

Related words

No other collective nouns recorded for these subjects.