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bevy 音标拼音: [b'ɛvi] n. 群 群 bevy n 1: a large gathering of people of a particular type; " he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire"; " a bevy of young beach boys swarmed around him" 2: a flock of birds ( especially when gathered close together on the ground); " we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks" 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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