flock

Noun
  1. A church congregation guided by a pastor (synset 108007714)
    is a type of: congregation, faithful, fold - a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
  2. A group of birds (synset 108007398)
    is a type of: animal group - a group of animals
    subtypes:
    • bevy - a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground)
    • covert - a flock of coots
    • covey - a small flock of grouse or partridge
    • exaltation - a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead)
    • gaggle - a flock of geese
    • wisp - a flock of snipe
    • flight - a flock of flying birds
    member holonym: bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
  3. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent (synset 113796604)
    "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"
    is a type of: large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
    subtypes:
    same as: 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 (synset 108291486)
    "a troop of children"
    is a type of: crowd - a large number of things or people considered together
    same as: troop
  5. A group of sheep or goats (synset 108007611)
    is a type of: animal group - a group of animals
    member holonym: sheep - woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
    same as: fold
Verb
  1. Move as a crowd or in a group (synset 202029199)
    "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
    is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
  2. Come together as in a cluster or flock (synset 202028855)
    "The poets constellate in this town every summer"
    is a type of: assemble, foregather, forgather, gather, meet - collect in one place
    subtypes:
    same as: clump, cluster, constellate

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