Question

What is the collective noun for soldiers?

Answer 1

Hint: Collective nouns are names for a group or a group of people or objects. They are terms used to identify a community as a whole. Some examples of collective nouns are party, herd, bouquet, bunch, flock, panel, workers, and so on.

Complete answer:
A noun is a term that indicates the name for a particular entity or group of things, such as living beings, locations, behaviour, attributes, states of life, or ideas. However, since a noun is not a semantic category, it cannot be described in terms of its meaning.

Thus, verbs can express actions and states of being, adjectives can express characteristics, and adverbs can express locations. Linguistically, a noun is a member of a broad, open part of speech whose members may appear as the main word in a clause's subject, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.

Why use collective nouns in the question?

Soldiers within an organisational unit can be referred to using that unit as a collective noun depending upon their size and nature. Collective nouns are names for a group or a group of people or objects. Soldiers in a question are plural forms whose set is to be told in one word that is better represented by using it.

'Army' may be a collective noun for ‘soldiers.' Other collective nouns could be used depending on the number of soldiers in the squad. Among the collective nouns for ‘soldiers' are 'business,' 'division,' 'draught,' and ‘muster.' Smaller groups of soldiers may be referred to as a 'platoon' or a 'unit,' whereas larger groups of soldiers may be referred to as a ‘regiment' or a 'brigade.'

Squad or section - approximately 10
Platoon or troop - approximately 30
Company, Battery, or Squadron - approximately 100–200
Regiment or Battalion - 600-1000 men
Brigade (approximately 1500–3000 men)
Division - approximately 10,000 - 20,000
Corps - approximately 20,000 to 100,000
Army - approximately 100,000 to 1,000,000
Army Group - approximately 1,000,000 plus

Note: Using collective nouns may be confusing since it's not always clear whether to use plural or singular verbs and pronouns with them. It is important to determine whether the collective noun refers to the group as a whole or to individual members of the group.