flock
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 church congregation guided by a pastor
Types & categories
- congregation hypernym
Sense 2 verb
move as a crowd or in a group
Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Related & opposite
- flock derivation
Sense 3 noun
a group of birds
Types & categories
- animal group hypernym
- bevy hyponym
- covert hyponym
- covey hyponym
- exaltation hyponym
- gaggle hyponym
- wisp hyponym
- flight hyponym
Parts & wholes
- bird member meronym
Sense 4 verb
come together as in a cluster or flock
The poets constellate in this town every summer
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- configuration derivation
- clump derivation
- flock derivation
- constellation derivation
Sense 5 noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
a batch of letters
Types & categories
- large indefinite quantity hypernym
- deluge hyponym
- haymow hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 noun
an orderly crowd
a troop of children
Types & categories
- crowd hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 7 noun
a group of sheep or goats
Types & categories
- animal group hypernym
Parts & wholes
- sheep member meronym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | congregation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | flock |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 3 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | bird |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | animal group |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bevy |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | covert |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | covey |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | exaltation |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | gaggle |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | wisp |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | flight |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | configuration |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | clump |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | flock |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | constellation |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | forgather |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | huddle |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | bunch |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | heap |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | cram |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | jam |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | heap |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | plenteous |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | large indefinite quantity |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | deluge |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | haymow |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | troop |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | cluster |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | flock |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | crowd |
| 7 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | sheep |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | animal group |