bevy
/ˈbɛvi
/noun (plural bevies)
1A large group of people or things of a particular kind: he was surrounded by a bevy of beautiful girls...
- A bevy of Party spokesmen went on television interview programs Sunday to justify the advertising campaign.
- Filling in their sound with a bevy of horns, keyboards and synthesizers, the explosive troupe leaves a larger than life impression on their audiences.
- His popular soul classics band continues to impress with a bevy of autumn gigs around the county.
Synonyms
group, gang, troop, troupe, party, company, band, body, crowd, pack, army, herd, flock, drove, horde, galaxy, assemblage, gathering;
knot, cluster, covey
informal bunch, gaggle, posse, crew
2 rare A group of roe deer, quails, or larks: a bevy of larks trill their carefree songs...
- You might happen upon a bevy of larks, chirping or singing together.
- A bevy of larks mounted invisible stairs to heaven.
- Your woodman talked of a bevy of roes.
Origin
Late Middle English: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- think fit
- think for oneself
- thinkful
- think group
- think-in
- thinking
- thinking-aloud
- thinking box
- thinking cap
- Thinking Day
- thinking distance
- thinkingly
- thinking machine
- thinkingness
- thinking-out
- thinking part
- thinking-shop
- thinking substance
- thinking-through
- thinking time
- think-man
- think nothing of
- think nothing of it
- thinko
- think on