Synonyms for flock
flɒkflock

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1. flock

   Group is the general word for any gathering of a small number of objects, whether of persons, animals, or inanimate things. The individuals in a brood or litter are related to each other; those in the other groups may not be. Brood is used chiefly of fowls and birds, litter of certain quadrupeds which bring forth many young at a birth; we speak of a brood of chickens, a litter of puppies; brood is sometimes applied to a family of young children. Bevy is used of birds, and figuratively of any bright and lively group of women or children, but rarely of men. Flock is applied to birds and to some of the smaller animals; herd is confined to the larger animals; we speak of a bevy of quail, a covey of partridges, a flock of blackbirds, or a flock of sheep, a herd of cattle, horses, buffaloes, or elephants, a pack of wolves, a pack of hounds, a swarm of bees. A collection of animals driven or gathered for driving is called a drove.

   Synonyms:
   bevy, brood, covey, drove, group, hatch, herd, litter, lot, pack, set, swarm

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. flockverb

   Synonyms:
   herd, congregate, throng, assemble, crowd

   Antonyms:
   disperse, scatter, separate, segregate

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flocknoun

   a church congregation guided by a pastor

   Synonyms:
   troop, wad, pile, lot, batch, hatful, good deal, quite a little, mountain, heap, muckle, passel, great deal, slew, mess, mint, tidy sum, raft, plenty, mickle, peck, fold, sight, pot, spate, mass, stack, deal

2. flocknoun

   a group of birds

   Synonyms:
   troop, wad, pile, lot, batch, hatful, good deal, quite a little, mountain, heap, muckle, passel, great deal, slew, mess, mint, tidy sum, raft, plenty, mickle, peck, fold, sight, pot, spate, mass, stack, deal

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, wadnoun

   (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:
   push-down list, destiny, bulk, cud, chaw, multitude, upsurge, atomic reactor, pile, quid, deal, spile, smokestack, caboodle, crapper, commode, throne, troop, fold, bay window, stool, softwood, chew, gage, push-down store, push-down storage, weed, hand, heap, surge, kitty, jalopy, smoke, muddle, band, lot, passel, slew, vision, freshet, potbelly, mussiness, jam, muss, hole, flowerpot, mint candy, visual modality, quite a little, clutch, luck, plentifulness, toilet, masses, ken, mess hall, down, atomic pile, messiness, the great unwashed, peck, tummy, agglomerate, sight, volume, wad, plug, mount, potty, set, nap, portion, skunk, push-down stack, chain reactor, rush, mound, good deal, big money, galvanic pile, pickle, sens, bundle, fate, voltaic pile, draw, stilt, green goddess, people, visual sense, sess, batch, view, pot, stack, mess, bunch, spate, plenteousness, locoweed, piling, bus, bargain, mountain, survey, business deal, plenty, potentiometer, mint, dope, plentitude, cumulus, plenitude, raft, jackpot, mickle, can, big bucks, kettle of fish, mass, tidy sum, corporation, circumstances, hatful, potful, megabucks, circle, grass, great deal, trade, cumulation, fix, muckle, fortune, hoi polloi

4. troop, flocknoun

   an orderly crowd

   "a troop of children"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, wad, mass, lot, batch, hatful, good deal, quite a little, mountain, troop, heap, muckle, passel, spate, great deal, slew, mess, scout troop, mint, scout group, raft, plenty, mickle, peck, stack, sight, pot, pile, fold, deal

5. flock, foldverb

   a group of sheep or goats

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, folding, bend, peck, mint, crease, plenty, lot, sheep pen, passel, batch, raft, quite a little, plication, spate, muckle, pile, faithful, good deal, stack, crimp, sight, flexure, deal, congregation, troop, sheepfold, wad, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, mess, sheepcote, fold, plica, mass, mountain, great deal, pot

6. flockverb

   move as a crowd or in a group

   "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"

   Synonyms:
   clump, cluster, constellate

7. cluster, constellate, flock, clumpverb

   come together as in a cluster or flock

   "The poets constellate in this town every summer"

   Synonyms:
   bundle, clump, constellate, plunk, clomp, bunch, clunk, dot, bunch up, cluster, stud, clop

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Group
   • Congregation
   • Crowd
   • Gather
   • Large Indefinite Quantity
   • Move

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. flocknoun

   Synonyms:
   collection (of sheep, &c.), company

2. flocknoun

   Synonyms:
   lock of wool

3. flockverb

   Synonyms:
   congregate, herd, gather in crowds

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1. flocknoun

   Synonyms:
   covey, herd, bevy, drove, pack, lot, group, brood, litter

   Associated words:
   gregarious, gregal, gregariously, gregariousness

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1. List of paraphrases for "flock":

   herd, clan, swarmer, tributary, sheep

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1. Kelly Smallridge:

   When the governor went after these institutes to come to Florida, we didn’t realize the amount of infrastructure that needed to be in place, you don’t just go and pluck two institutes and put them in a county and expect the industry overall to thrive and for companies to flock here.

2. Latin Proverb:

   It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

3. James Hyland:

   Prices for all egg sizes in all regions across the country are up due to the avian flu and a reduction of the national flock size, which has led to a shortage of eggs.

4. Kevin Appleby:

   The church has an institutional interest in immigration, and it's something the church wouldn't apologize for, if you have your flock, you have a pastoral care duty for your flock, and part of that duty is to advocate on their behalf and defend their rights.

5. Mark Beltaire:

   Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.