flock

(noun) a church congregation guided by a pastor.

(noun) a group of birds.

(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent. Synonyms: batch, deal, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad. Examples: "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."

(noun) an orderly crowd. Synonyms: troop. Examples: "A troop of children."

(noun) a group of sheep or goats. Synonyms: fold.

(verb) move as a crowd or in a group. Examples: "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears."

(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock. Synonyms: cluster, constellate, clump. Examples: "The poets constellate in this town every summer."