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* Romanian: {{t+|ro|stol|n}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|stol|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ста́я|f}}, {{t+|ru|ста́до|n}} ''(esp. of geese)''
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ста́я|f}}, {{t+|ru|ста́до|n}} {{q|especially of geese}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|ealt|f}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|ealt|f}}
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* Maltese: {{t|mt|merħla|f}}
* Maore Comorian: {{t|swb|ɓangwe|c5|c6|tr=bangwe}}
* Maore Comorian: {{t|swb|ɓangwe|c5|c6}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kāhui}}, {{t|mi|rāngai}}
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* Romanian: {{t+|ro|turmă|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ста́до|n}}, {{t+|ru|ота́ра|f}} ''(of sheep)''
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ста́до|n}}, {{t+|ru|ота́ра|f}} {{q|of sheep}}
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Revision as of 23:33, 8 December 2019

See also: Flock

English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɒk

Etymology 1

From Middle English flock (“flock”), from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz, *flakka- (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with Middle Low German vlocke (“crowd, flock”), Old Norse flokkr (“crowd, troop, band, flock”). Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk.

Noun

flock (2) of sheep

flock (plural flocks)

  1. A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
  2. A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
  3. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
    • Tennyson
      As half amazed, half frighted all his flock.
    • 1995, Green Key Books, God's Word to the Nations (John 10:16)‎[1]:
      I also have other sheep that are not from this pen. I must lead them. They, too, will respond to my voice. So they will be one flock with one shepherd.
  4. A large number of people.
    • Bible, 2 Macc. xiv. 14
      The heathen […] came to Nicanor by flocks.
    Synonym: congregation
  5. (Christianity) A religious congregation.
    Synonym: congregation
Synonyms

(large number of people):

Translations
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Verb

flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)

  1. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
    People flocked to the cinema to see the new film.
    • Dryden
      Friends daily flock.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
    • 1609, Taylor
      Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
  3. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
Translations

Etymology 2

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 flokë (“hair”).

Noun

flock (countable and uncountable, plural flocks)

  1. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
  2. A lock of wool or hair.
    • William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
      I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel].
  3. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating for wallpaper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fibre used for a similar purpose.
    • Template:RQ:BLwnds TLdgr
      There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Translations

Verb

flock (third-person singular simple present flocks, present participle flocking, simple past and past participle flocked)

  1. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.
Translations

Derived terms

See also

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish flokker, flukker, from Old Norse flokkr, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz. Cognate with Faroese flokkur, Icelandic flokkur, Norwegian flokk, and Danish flok.

Pronunciation

Noun

flock c

  1. flock; a group of people or animals
  2. murder of crows

Declension

Declension of flock 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative flock flocken flockar flockarna
Genitive flocks flockens flockars flockarnas
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