flock

Meaning

1. A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
2. A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.
3. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
4. A large number of people.
5. A religious congregation.

herd

good deal

tidy sum

crowd round

fly around

drift

herd of cattle

mingle with

quite a little

troop out

bunch together

croud

flow together

head towards

be crowded

be jammed

flocculus

come in crowds

flock of birds

be crammed

murmuration

group in general

multitude of beasts

troop of animals

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/flɒk/

From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with Middle Low German vlocke (“crowd, flock”), Danish flok (“flock”), Swedish flock (“flock”), Norwegian flokk (“flock”), Faroese flokkur (“flock”), Icelandic flokkur (“flock, group”). Related also to Norman fliotchet (“flock, crowd”), from Old Norse. Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk.

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