flock
1. a church congregation guided by a pastor (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
congregation, fold, faithful
2. a group of birds (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
animal group
• Hyponyms:
bevy, covert, covey, exaltation, gaggle,
wisp, flight
• Member Meronyms:
bird
3. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent (Freq. 1)
- a batch of letters
- a deal of trouble
- a lot of money
- he made a mint on the stock market
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
- it must have cost plenty
- a slew of journalists
- a wad of money
• Syn:
batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful,
heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint,
mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad
• Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), plenteous (for: plenty), pile (for: pile), heap (for: heap)
• Hypernyms:
large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
• Hyponyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow
4. an orderly crowd (Freq. 1)
- a troop of children
• Syn:
troop
• Derivationally related forms:
troop (for: troop)
• Hypernyms:
crowd
5. a group of sheep or goats
• Syn:
fold
• Hypernyms:
animal group
• Member Meronyms:
sheep
1. move as a crowd or in a group (Freq. 2)
- Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
2. come together as in a cluster or flock
- The poets constellate in this town every summer
• Syn:
cluster, constellate, clump
• Derivationally related forms:
clump (for: clump), constellation (for: constellate), cluster (for: cluster), clustering (for: cluster)
• Hypernyms:
meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
• Hyponyms:
huddle, huddle together, bunch together, bunch, bunch up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
- The crowds flock in the streets
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