flock (n.)

  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; 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 ]

  4. an orderly crowd; a troop of children

    [ Syn: troop ]

  5. a group of sheep or goats

    [ Syn: fold ]

    flock (v.)

  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 ]

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