FLOCK
What does "FLOCK" mean?
A group of birds or sheep that gather, feed, or travel together.
Meanings
- A number of birds or grazing animals, especially sheep, kept or moving together. A flock of starlings wheeled and folded across the dusk sky.
- A congregation of people under a religious leader's care. The pastor welcomed his flock back after the long winter. figurative
- To gather or move somewhere in large numbers. Tourists flock to the coast every July.
Did you know?
- A swirling starling murmuration has no leader: studies of these flocks find each bird simply tracks roughly its seven nearest neighbours, and that local rule alone produces the whole cloud's hypnotic, leaderless turns.
Word origin
From Old English 'flocc', a band or crowd of people, later applied to animals; unrelated to the older 'flock' meaning a tuft of wool, which comes from Latin 'floccus'.
Remember it
FLOCK and 'block' rhyme - picture a whole block of birds moving as one solid shape.
Wordplay
- Why did the shepherd join social media? He heard it was the best place to grow a flock.
What it teaches
Order in a crowd rarely comes from a leader; it comes from each one watching the few right beside them.
Quick facts
What does FLOCK mean?
A group of birds or sheep that gather, feed, or travel together.
Is FLOCK a valid word?
Yes — FLOCK is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FLOCK?
FLOCK has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FLOCK come from?
From Old English 'flocc', a band or crowd of people, later applied to animals; unrelated to the older 'flock' meaning a tuft of wool, which comes from Latin 'floccus'.
What can FLOCK teach us?
Order in a crowd rarely comes from a leader; it comes from each one watching the few right beside them.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.