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Meaning of 'flock' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Flock [ n.]
- A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
- A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
- A lock of wool or hair.
- Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
2 . Flock [ sing. / pl.]
- Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
3 . Flock [ v. i.]
- To gather in companies or crowds.
4 . Flock [ v. t.]
- To flock to; to crowd.
- To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.

Meaning of 'flock' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . flock [ n]
Meaning (1):
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Example in sentence:
  • a batch of letters;
  • a deal of trouble;
  • a lot of money;
  • a slew of journalists;
  • a wad of money;
  • he made a mint on the stock market;
  • it must have cost plenty;
  • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
Meaning (2):
- an orderly crowd
Example in sentence:
  • a troop of children
3 . flock [ v]
Meaning (3):
- come together as in a cluster or flock
Example in sentence:
  • The poets constellate in this town every summer
Meaning (4):
- move as a crowd or in a group
Example in sentence:
  • Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears

Nearby Words:

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