Bevy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bevy \Bev"y\, n.; pl. {Bevies}. [Perhaps orig. a drinking
     company, fr. OF. bev['e]e (cf. It. beva) a drink, beverage;
     then, perh., a company in general, esp. of ladies; and last
     applied by sportsmen to larks, quails, etc. See {Beverage}.]
     1. A company; an assembly or collection of persons,
        especially of ladies.


        [1913 Webster]
  
              What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! --Beau.
                                                    & Fl.
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     2. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd
        of roes.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bevy
       n 1: a group of girls or young women
       2: a flock of quail

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "bevy":
     a mass of, a world of, age group, army, assembly, band, battalion,
     body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cast, charm, clique, cloud, cluster,
     clutter, cohort, company, complement, contingent, corps, coterie,
     covey, crew, crowd, detachment, detail, division, faction, fleet,
     flight, flock, flocks, gaggle, gang, group, grouping, groupment,
     hail, hive, host, in-group, jam, junta, large amount, legion, lots,
     many, masses of, mob, movement, muchness, multitude, murmuration,
     nest, numbers, out-group, outfit, pack, party, peer group, phalanx,
     plague, platoon, plurality, posse, quantities, quite a few,
     regiment, rout, ruck, salon, scores, set, shoal, skein, spring,
     squad, stable, string, swarm, team, throng, tidy sum, tribe, troop,
     troupe, watch, wing, worlds of