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BEVY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground)
Example:
we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("bevy" is a kind of...):
flock (a group of birds)
Meronyms (members of "bevy"):
quail (small gallinaceous game birds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A large gathering of people of a particular type
Example:
a bevy of young beach boys swarmed around him
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("bevy" is a kind of...):
assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)
