User:Meyersde/sandbox/Collective Noun Catalog

Living Organisms (Plants, Animals, Bacterium, Fungi, etc.)
Wherever possible, categorized using the scientific classification system using Class – Order – (Family) if possible. In cases were nouns were too generalized or if there were a very large grouping of like nouns, a move up or down in the classification system was made to include either a Phylum, Superclass, Class, or a Clade.

Inanimate Common Nouns
Categorized as:


 * Abstract nouns - refer to things that are not concrete; refer to emotions, ideas, concepts, traits, experiences, or a state of being.
 * Countable nouns - are able to be shown with a number.
 * Uncountable nouns – can be thought of as a collective within a subset of collective nouns. Normally uncountable nouns are used in the singular tense and one cannot use “a” or “an” with them.
 * Concrete nouns represent something physical that can be experienced through the senses

Common nouns that could be grouped into additional categories include:

 * Finance – refers to nouns in the world of banking and finance
 * Food – Breads, Cereals, Confections, Dairy, Drink, Fruits, Fungi, Legumes, Meats, Nuts, Soups, Spices, and Vegetable.
 * Music – Musical instruments, sections of an orchestra, nouns referring to music
 * Military – Vehicles, Weapons
 * Mythical Beings – that which no longer resides in the natural world or which exists in non-material world.
 * Natural World – nouns that represent the natural world and its attributes
 * Science and Medicine – nouns directly involved with the scientific world or the world of medicine
 * Time – nouns referencing time

People
Loosely classified into groups defined by the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO), and then by generally recognizable categories.

Major Groupings of Occupations of the ISCO:	General Occupational Categories listed as:
 * 1) Managers (Management)
 * 2) Professionals (Professional)
 * 3) Technicians and Associate Professionals (Professional)
 * 4) Clerical Support Workers (Clerical Support)
 * 5) Services and Sales Workers (Services and Sales)
 * 6) Skilled Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Workers (Farm)
 * 7) Craft and Related Trades Workers (Trades)
 * 8) Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers (Trades)
 * 9) Elementary Occupations (Trades)
 * 10) Armed Forces Occupations	(Military)