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Added 9 October 2026

flock

/flɒk/ noun

In Latin: grex Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about flock at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A church congregation guided by a pastor.
A group of birds.
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent.
a batch of letters

verb

Move as a crowd or in a group.
Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears
Come together as in a cluster or flock.
The poets constellate in this town every summer

Origin

From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with German Low German Flock (“crowd, flock”), Danish flok (“flock”), Swedish flock (“flock”), Norwegian flokk (“flock”), Faroese flokkur (“flock”), Icelandic flokkur (“flock, group”). Related also to Norman fliotchet (“flock, crowd”), from Old Norse. Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk.

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