bevy
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a large gathering of people of a particular type
he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire
Types & categories
- gathering hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground)
we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks
Types & categories
- flock hypernym
Parts & wholes
- quail member meronym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | gathering |
| 2 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | quail |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | flock |