Noun
- 1. flock, congregation, fold, faithful
- usage: a church congregation guided by a pastor
- 2. flock, animal group
- usage: a group of birds
- 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, large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
- usage: (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"
- 4. troop, flock, crowd
- usage: an orderly crowd; "a troop of children"
- 5. flock, fold, animal group
- usage: a group of sheep or goats
Verb
- 1. flock, travel, go, move, locomote
- usage: move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
- 2. cluster, constellate, flock, clump, meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
- usage: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"
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