flock

noun

1. a church congregation guided by a pastor

Definition categories: group, congregation, faithful, fold

2. a group of birds

Definition categories: group

3. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

Similar word(s): batch, deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad

Definition categories: quantity

4. an orderly crowd

Similar word(s): troop

Definition categories: group, crowd

5. a group of sheep or goats

Similar word(s): fold

Definition categories: group

verb

1. move as a crowd or in a group

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

Definition categories: motion, go, locomote, move, travel

2. come together as in a cluster or flock

Similar word(s): clump, cluster, constellate

Definition categories: motion, assemble, foregather, forgather, gather, meet