Noun: flock
| Singular | flock |
| Plural | flocks |
Sample Sentences
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He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill. [1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170:]
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Into the trees / Past meadow grounds / And further away from my home / Baying behind me / I hear the hounds / Flock's chasing to find me alone / A trail of sickness / Leading to me / If I am haunted / Then you will see [2005, “Reverie / Harlequin Forest”, in Ghost Reveries, performed by Opeth:]
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My parents kept a flock of sheep. When Andy and I married in 1990, I brought 11 sheep descended from my father's flock to Andy's family's dairy farm. [2026, Robin Nistock, quotee, “Makers Space”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 12:]
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The heathen […] came to Nicanor by flocks. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Maccabees 14:14:]
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But lapsed into so long a pause again / As half amazed, half frighted all his flock: [...] [1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 83:]
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I also have other sheep that are not from this pen. I must lead them. They, too, will respond to my voice. So they will be one flock with one shepherd. [1995, Green Key Books, God's Word to the Nations (John 10:16):]
Nouns inflected like flock
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *flukkaz
3. Proto-West Germanic *flokk
4. Old English flocc
5. Middle English flok
6. English flock
7. From Middle English flok, from Old English flocc (“flock, company, troop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flokk, from Proto-Germanic *flukkaz (“crowd, troop”). Cognate with German Low German Flock (“crowd, flock”), Danish flok (“flock”), Swedish flock (“flock”), Norwegian flokk (“flock”), Faroese flokkur (“flock”), Icelandic flokkur (“flock, group”). Related also to Norman fliotchet (“flock, crowd”), from Old Norse. Perhaps related to Old English folc (“crowd, troop, band”). More at folk. See: Middle English Nouns '
flok', Old English Nouns '
flocc', Danish Nouns '
flok', Swedish Nouns '
flock', Faroese Nouns '
flokkur', Icelandic Nouns '
flokkur', Old English Nouns '
folc'.
Verbs referencing "flock"
Finnish Nouns
flokki.