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say it: BEV-ee
bevy is a noun meaning "a large gathering of people of a particular type". It is pronounced /ˈbɛvi/ — BEV-ee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a large gathering of people of a particular type
“he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire”
“a bevy of young beach boys swarmed around him”
a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground)
“we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bevy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.