Dictionary Definition
flock
Noun
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; "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" [syn: batch,
deal, good deal,
great
deal, hatful,
heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a
little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum,
wad, whole lot,
whole
slew]
4 an orderly crowd; "a troop of children" [syn:
troop]
5 a group of sheep or goats
Verb
1 move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists
flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed
tears"
2 come together as in a cluster or flock; "The
poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: cluster, constellate, clump]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Old English floccPronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒk
Noun
Translations
group of birds
group of sheep
group of people
tufts of wool or cotton
- Finnish: vanu
Verb
- To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
- To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.
Translations
- Finnish: kokoontua, kerääntyä
- Icelandic: hópast saman
- Swedish: flockas
- Telugu: గుమిగూడు (gumigUDu)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
flockExtensive Definition
Flock or The Flock may refer to:
- Flock, a group of animals, a herd, especially of sheep or goats
- Flock (birds), a group of birds, either in flight, or while feeding
- Flock, a large number of people, or a crowd
- Flock, a Christian congregation
- Flock, finely powdered fibres used to produce a velvety surface texture: see flocking (texture)
- Flock, a tuft of wool or cotton fiber, woolen or cotton refuse used for stuffing furniture and mattresses
- Flock (web browser), a free and open-source web browser based on Mozilla Firefox; also the company developing it
- Flock (sculpture), a sculpture by Michael Christian
- The flock (2) system call, used for file locking
- Flock (album), the third album by Irish band Bell X1
- The Flock (band), a progressive rock band fronted by violinist Jerry Goodman
- The Flock (film), a film starring Richard Gere
- The Flock (novel), a novel by James Robert Smith
- The Flock, also known as Raven's Nest, a large stable in World Championship Wrestling headed by Raven
See also
flock in German: Flock
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a mass of, a world of, army, assemble, assembly, band, band together, bang, bangs, bevy, body, brethren, bunch, charm, chip, churchgoers, class, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohue, collect, collection, colony, come together, company, congregate, congregation, convoy, covey, crowd, crush, dandruff, deluge, drift, drive, drove, fetlock, flake, fleck, fleet, flight, floccule, flocculus, flocks, flood, fold, forelock, fringe, gaggle, galaxy, gam, gang, gather, gathering, go, go together, group, hail, heap, herd, herd together, hive, horde, host, jam, kennel, laity, large amount, laymen, legion, litter, lots, many, mass, masses of, meet, minyan, mob, muchness, multitude, murmuration, nest, nonclerics, nonordained
persons, number, numbers, pack, panoply, paring, parish, parishioners, people, plague, plurality, pod, pour, press, pride, quantities, quantity, quiff, quite a few, rabble, rout, ruck, scale, school, scores, scurf, seculars, set, shaving, sheep, shoal, skein, skulk, sloth, society, spate, spring, swarm, throng, tidy sum, trip, troop, troupe, tuft, watch, worlds
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