Bevy

Quick meaning: Bevy is a noun meaning (collective) A group of animals, particularly quail.

Meaning

(collective) A group of animals, particularly quail.

More Meanings

1. (collective) A small group of people, especially girls or women.
2. (collective) A large group or collection.

Example Sentences

The same messenger who summoned the whole bevy of renegades, Dover, Peterborough, Murray, Sunderland, and Mulgrave, could just as easily have summoned Clarendon.

The two elder of the brothers were plainly not intending to linger more than a moment, but the spectacle of a bevy of girls dancing without male partners seemed to amuse the third, and make him in no hurry to move on.

The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.

For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

Word Forms

• bevies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include team, cavyard, fellow, herd, cavvyard, fold.

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