flock

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A group of birds or sheep that stay together.

   A flock of geese flew over the field.

2. 2
   verb

   To go somewhere in large numbers.

   People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.

3. 3
   noun

   A large crowd of people.

   A flock of fans waited outside the stadium.

From Middle English flok (“tuft of wool”), from Old French floc (“tuft of wool”), from Late Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokko (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkōn-, *flukkan-, *fluksōn- (“down, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian flok (“hair”).

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