Names for Groups: Characteristic Terms

1. Any collection or assemblage of persons or things; a cluster; an aggregation.
2. A number of people or things ranged or considered together as being related in some way.
3. Venereal terms are those group names that come from traditional terms of the hunt and which have evolved into modern terminology of descriptive group names or collective nouns.

1. Terms of the hunt and groups referred to as: "nouns of multitude", "group terms", and "terms of venery".
2. Transmitted by sexual intercourse.
3. Of or relating to a sexually transmitted disease.
4. Of or relating to sexual intercourse.
5. Of or relating to the genitals.

There are many group names from traditional terms of the hunt and some current creations that attempt to describe group charcteristics. Such historical nomenclature, or terminology, called Venereal Terms [listed at this page] or Terms of Venery, were said to refer to a gathering of "group names" or collective nouns from the hunt and social functions.

Venereal terms, or the language of the chase (hunt), were in general use as well-established hunting terms. The names were considered to be the proper terms for groups of beasts, fish, fowls, insects, or whatever was designated and they were "codified in the fifteenth century".

1. The pursuit of or indulgence in sexual pleasure.
2. From Medieval Latin veneria, from Latin venus, vener-, "desire, love".

Don't mix up this word with another venery which refers to "hunt" or "hunting".