flock meaning and definition

FLOCK noun

Definition of 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"; "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"
   • 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
4. an orderly crowd
   • "a troop of children"
   • synonyms: troop
5. a group of sheep or goats
   • synonyms: fold

FLOCK verb

Definition of flock (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"
   • synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate