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say it: flahk
flock is a noun and verb meaning "a church congregation guided by a pastor". It is pronounced /ˈflɑk/ — flahk. It carries 7 recorded senses.
a church congregation guided by a pastor
a group of birds
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
“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”
a group of sheep or goats
move as a crowd or in a group
“Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears”
come together as in a cluster or flock
“The poets constellate in this town every summer”
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 flock 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.