clowder

Meaning

A group of cats or other small felines.

Synonyms

army
A2
ascension
21k
band
B1
barrel
B2
barren
C2
battery
B2
🔋
bed
A1
🛏️
bevy
41k
bike
B1
🚲
boar
C2
🐗
brace
C1
brood
C2
building
A2
bunch
B1
bury
B2
business
A1
busyness
cartload
chowder
23k
circle
B2
⭕
clamour
40k
cloud
B2
☁️
cluster
C2
clutter
25k
coalition
C2
colony
C1
comfort
B2
company
A1
corps
C1
covey
drift
C1
drove
B1

erst

exaltation
family
A1
👪
field
A2
flight
B1
✈️
flock
C1
flush
C1
gaggle
39k
grist
gulp
C2
harem
C2
herd
C1
hive
C2
intrigue
C2
kennel
C2
kindle
37k
knot
C1
🪢
leash
C1
Translations

سرب
قطيع
Herde
Meute
Rotte
Rudel
Schafherde
Schule
🏫
Schwarm
Sprung
Pack
📦
grex

armentum

pecus
Pronounced as (IPA)
/klaʊ̯dɚ/
Etymology

Cognate with Dutch
Dutch
kloot
Cognate with Danish
klods
Cognate with German
German
Klotz
In summary

A variation, recorded since 1801, of clutter, itself from clot, from Old English clott (“round mass, lump”), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (hence cognate with Dutch kloot (“ball, testicle”), Danish klods (“a block, lump”) and German Klotz (“lump, block”)).

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