flock
verb/flɒk/
/flɑːk/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they flock | /flɒk/ /flɑːk/ |
| he / she / it flocks | /flɒks/ /flɑːks/ |
| past simple flocked | /flɒkt/ /flɑːkt/ |
| past participle flocked | /flɒkt/ /flɑːkt/ |
| -ing form flocking | /ˈflɒkɪŋ/ /ˈflɑːkɪŋ/ |
- to go or gather together somewhere in large numbers
- + adv./prep. Thousands of people flocked to the beach this weekend.
- Huge numbers of birds had flocked together by the lake.
- flock to do something People flocked to hear him speak.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryFlock is used with these nouns as the subject:- bird
- crowd
- fan
- …
Word Originverb Old English flocc, of unknown origin. The original sense was ‘a band or body of people’: this became obsolete, but has been reintroduced as a transferred use of the sense ‘a number of animals kept together’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See flock in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybirds of a feather (flock together)
- (saying) people of the same sort (are found together)
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