FLOCK
Dictionary entry overview: What does flock mean?
• FLOCK (noun)
The noun FLOCK has 5 senses:
1. a church congregation guided by a pastor
2. a group of birds
3. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
4. an orderly crowd
5. a group of sheep or goats
Familiarity information: FLOCK used as a noun is common.
• FLOCK (verb)
The verb FLOCK has 2 senses:
1. move as a crowd or in a group
2. come together as in a cluster or flock
Familiarity information: FLOCK used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FLOCK (noun)
Meaning:
A church congregation guided by a pastor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("flock" is a kind of...):
congregation; faithful; fold (a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church)
Meaning:
A group of birds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("flock" is a kind of...):
animal group (a group of animals)
Meronyms (members of "flock"):
bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flock"):
bevy (a flock of quail)
flight (a flock of flying birds)
wisp (a flock of snipe)
gaggle (a flock of geese)
exaltation (a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead))
covey (a small flock of grouse or partridge)
covert (a flock of coots)
Meaning:
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
mint; muckle; peck; quite a little; slew; spate; tidy sum; whole lot; whole slew; mickle; good deal; great deal; hatful; lot; heap; stack; mass; batch; raft; plenty; pile; wad; deal; flock; pot; mess; sight
Context examples:
a batch of letters / a deal of trouble / a lot of money / he made a mint on the stock market / it must have cost plenty
Hypernyms ("flock" is a kind of...):
large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flock"):
deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)
haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)
Meaning:
An orderly crowd
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
troop; flock
Context example:
a troop of children
Hypernyms ("flock" is a kind of...):
crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)
Meaning:
A group of sheep or goats
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
fold; flock
Hypernyms ("flock" is a kind of...):
animal group (a group of animals)
Meronyms (members of "flock"):
sheep (woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat)
• FLOCK (verb)
Meaning:
Move as a crowd or in a group
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears
Hypernyms (to "flock" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Come together as in a cluster or flock
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
cluster; clump; constellate; flock
Context example:
The poets constellate in this town every summer
Hypernyms (to "flock" is one way to...):
assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flock"):
huddle; huddle together (crowd or draw together)
bunch; bunch together; bunch up (form into a bunch)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The crowds flock in the streets
