flock

flock is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.
2. noun. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
3. intransitive verb. To gather in companies or crowds.
4. transitive verb. To flock to; to crowd.
5. noun. A lock of wool or hair.
6. noun. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
7. sing plural. Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.
8. transitive verb. To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
9. noun. a group of birds
10. noun. a group of sheep or goats

    Synonyms: fold

11. noun. a church congregation guided by a pastor
12. noun. an orderly crowd

    "a troop of children"

    Synonyms: troop

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

    "a batch of letters"

    "a deal of trouble"

    Synonyms: batch, deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel

14. verb. come together as in a cluster or flock

    "The poets constellate in this town every summer"

    Synonyms: clump, cluster, constellate

15. verb. move as a crowd or in a group

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

Synonyms

fold, troop, batch, deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad

Common word forms

flocks, flocked, flocker, flocking, flockless

Words from these letters

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