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flock
noun
1 flock
A church congregation guided by a pastor.
2 flock
A group of birds.
Dutch: koppel
3 flock
often followed by `of' A large number or amount or extent.
synonyms: 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 ... show more.
Roget 72:
assemblage;
collection,
collocation,
colligation†;
compilation,
levy,
gathering,
ingathering,
muster,
attroupement†;
team;
concourse,
conflux†,
congregation,
contesseration†,
convergence
etc.
290;
meeting,
levee,
reunion,
drawing room,
at home;
conversazione [It]
etc.
(social gathering)
892;
assembly,
congress;
convention,
conventicle;
gemote†;
conclave
etc.
(council)
696;
posse,
posse comitatus [Lat.];
Noah's ark.
miscellany,
collectanea†;
museum,
menagerie
etc.
(store)
636;
museology†.
crowd,
throng,
group;
flood,
rush,
deluge;
rabble,
mob,
press,
crush,
cohue†,
horde,
body,
tribe;
crew,
gang,
knot,
squad,
band,
party;
swarm,
shoal,
school,
covey,
flock,
herd,
drove;
atajo†;
bunch,
drive,
force,
mulada [U.S.];
remuda†;
roundup [U.S.];
array,
bevy,
galaxy;
corps,
company,
troop,
troupe,
task force;
army,
regiment
etc.
(combatants)
726;
host
etc.
(multitude)
102;
populousness.
clan,
brotherhood,
fraternity,
sorority,
association
etc.
(party)
712.
volley,
shower,
storm,
cloud.
group,
cluster,
Pleiades,
clump,
pencil;
set,
batch,
lot,
pack;
budget,
assortment,
bunch;
parcel;
packet,
package;
bundle,
fascine†,
fasces†,
bale;
seron†,
seroon†;
fagot,
wisp,
truss,
tuft;
shock,
rick,
fardel†,
stack,
sheaf,
haycock†;
fascicle,
fascicule†,
fasciculus [Lat.],
gavel,
hattock†,
stook†.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
congeries,
heap,
lump,
pile,
rouleau†,
tissue,
mass,
pyramid;
bing†;
drift;
snowball,
snowdrift;
acervation†,
cumulation;
glomeration†,
agglomeration;
conglobation†;
conglomeration,
conglomerate;
coacervate [Chem],
coacervation [Chem],
coagmentation†,
aggregation,
concentration,
congestion,
omnium gaterum [Lat.],
spicilegium†,
black hole of Calcutta;
quantity
etc.
(greatness)
31.
collector,
gatherer;
whip,
whipper in.
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Roget 102:
multitude;
numerous
etc.
adj.;
numerosity,
numerality;
multiplicity;
profusion
etc.
(plenty)
639;
legion,
host;
great number,
large number,
round number,
enormous number;
a quantity,
numbers,
array,
sight,
army,
sea,
galaxy;
scores,
peck,
bushel,
shoal,
swarm,
draught,
bevy,
cloud,
flock,
herd,
drove,
flight,
covey,
hive,
brood,
litter,
farrow,
fry,
nest;
crowd
etc.
(assemblage)
72;
lots;
all in the world and his wife.
[Increase of number]
greater number,
majority;
multiplication,
multiple.
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Dutch: bende, berg, boel, bom, bulk, bups, een groot aantal, hoop, kluit, kwak, lading, massa, pak, partij, schep, smak, stelletje, stoot, troep, veelheid, vracht, zooi, zwik ... show more
Polish: legion, zastęp, armia, tabun
4 flock
An orderly crowd.
synonym: troop.
Polish: trzoda
5 flock
verb
1 flock
Move as a crowd or in a group.
2 flock
Come together as in a cluster or flock.
synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate.
Roget 72:
assemble
[be or come together],
collect,
muster;
meet,
unite,
join,
rejoin;
cluster,
flock,
swarm,
surge,
stream,
herd,
crowd,
throng,
associate;
congregate,
conglomerate,
concentrate;
precipitate;
center round,
rendezvous,
resort;
come together,
flock get together,
pig together;
forgather;
huddle;
reassemble.
[get or bring together]
assemble,
muster;
bring together,
get together,
put together,
draw together,
scrape together,
lump together;
collect,
collocate,
colligate†;
get,
whip in;
gather;
hold a meeting;
convene,
convoke,
convocate†;
rake up,
dredge;
heap,
mass,
pile;
pack,
put up,
truss,
cram;
acervate†;
agglomerate,
aggregate;
compile;
group,
aggroup†,
concentrate,
unite;
collect into a focus,
bring into a focus;
amass,
accumulate
etc.
(store)
636;
collect in a dragnet;
heap Ossa upon Pelion.
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Moby thesaurus: 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 of ... show more.
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