Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun flock

5 senses of flock

Sense 1
flock -- (a church congregation guided by a pastor)
       => congregation, fold, faithful -- (a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church)

Sense 2
flock -- (a group of birds)
       => animal group -- (a group of animals)

Sense 3
batch, deal, flock, 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 -- ((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")
       => large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount -- (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Sense 4
troop, flock -- (an orderly crowd; "a troop of children")
       => crowd -- (a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers")

Sense 5
flock, fold -- (a group of sheep or goats)
       => animal group -- (a group of animals)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb flock

2 senses of flock

Sense 1
flock -- (move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears")
       => travel, go, move, locomote -- (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast")

Sense 2
cluster, constellate, flock, clump -- (come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer")
       => meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather -- (collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room")