FLOCKING - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Noun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

Example: 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

Meaning 2

Part of speech: Noun

a group of birds

Meaning 3

Part of speech: Noun

a group of sheep or goats

Meaning 4

Part of speech: Noun

a church congregation guided by a pastor

Meaning 5

Part of speech: Noun

an orderly crowd

Example: a troop of children

Meaning 6

Part of speech: Verb

come together as in a cluster or flock

Example: The poets constellate in this town every summer

Meaning 7

Part of speech: Verb

move as a crowd or in a group

Example: Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears