1. (n.)flock an assemblage of animals, esp. sheep, goats, or birds, that live, travel, or feed together.
2. flock a large group of people or things: flocks of sightseers.
3. flock a single congregation in relation to its pastor.
4. (v.i.)flock to gather or go in a flock: They flocked around the football hero.
5. (n.)flock a tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
6. flock (sometimes used with a pl. v.) wool refuse, shearings of cloth, or old cloth torn to pieces.
7. (v.t.)flock to stuff with flock.
8. flock to decorate or coat with flock.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME flok < OF floc < L floccus tuft of wool)
Definition of 'Flock'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)flock a church congregation guided by a pastor
2. (noun)flock a group of birds
3. (noun)batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
4. (noun)troop, flock an orderly crowd "a troop of children"
1. (noun)flock a group of birds or sheep a flock of geese
2. flock a group of people with a leader the Reverend and his flock
3. (verb)flock to move in large numbers British tourists flocking to the U.S.
Definition of 'Flock'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Flock 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)Flock a Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge
3. (noun)Flock a lock of wool or hair
4. (noun)Flock woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture
5. Flock 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 vegetablefiber used for a similar purpose
6. (verb)Flock to gather in companies or crowds
7. (verb)Flock to flock to; to crowd
8. (verb)Flock 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