flock

Noun

• a group of sheep or goats

• an orderly crowd
  • a troop of children
    

• (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 birds

• a church congregation guided by a pastor

Verb

• come together as in a cluster or flock
  • The poets constellate in this town every summer
    

• move as a crowd or in a group
  • Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  fold , troop , batch , cluster , constellate , clump