Bevy

Definitions: Bevy

Bevy

Noun

1. A group of girls or young women.

2. A flock of quail.

Date "bevy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Bevy A bevy of ladies. A throng or company; properly applied to roebucks, quails, and pheasants. Timid gregarious animals, in self-defence, go down to a river to drink in bevies or small companies. Ladies, from their timidity, are placed in the same category (Italian, bevere, to drink). "And upon her deck what a bevy of human flowers- young women, how lovely!- young men, how noble!"- De Quincey: Dream-fugue. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assemblage	Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness.
Multitude	Noun: multitude; numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bevy

English words defined with "bevy": Bevies. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bevy": digital dashboard. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Bevy of Beasts (reference) A Bevy of Beasts: A Coloring Book of Elizabethan Drawings from the Folger Shakespeare Library (reference) A Bevy of Beasts: The Enchanting Animals of Borneo, Belize & Beyond (reference) Bevy of Baskets (reference) Bevy of Beast (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Bevy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bevy" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	38	55,818

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "bevy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		skare (accumulation, are, band, cluster, collection, crowd, gang, group, heap, herd, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set), trop (are, cluster, collection, flock, group, heap, herd, pack, set), skool (are, bench, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, school, set), kudde (are, cluster, collection, flock, group, heap, herd, pack, set), klomp (are, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, pile, set, stack), bende (band, gang). (various references)

Albanian		turmë (concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, drove, flock, herd, horde, huddle, jam, mob, press, rabble, rat race, rout, ruck, throng), grumbull (abatis, aggregation, amassment, bank, batch, bunch, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, crowd, group, heap, jumble, mass, mob, mountain, pile, pile up, stack, stamp mill). (various references)

Arabic		‏سرب (drift, flock, group, herd, infiltrate, leak, swarm), ‏عصبة (band, cabal, clique, crew, faction, league, nervousness, platoon, ring, string). (various references)

Bulgarian		ято (Covey, flight, flock, gaggle, pack, skein, wing), орляк (flight, flock, wing). (various references)

Czech		houf (band, bunch, drove, gaggle, herd, horde, shoal, throng, troop), hejno (Covey, drove, flight, flock, gaggle, school, shoal, swarm). (various references)

Danish		bande (band, blaspheme, curse, cuss, gang, kicking board, parapet, swear). (various references)

Dutch		schare (accumulation, are, band, cluster, collection, crowd, gang, good great group, group, heap, herd, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set), kudde (are, band, cluster, collection, drove, flock, good great group, group, heap, herd, integral herd, livestock, pack, set), hoop (accumulation, are, cluster, collection, couch, crowd, good great group, group, heap, herd, hope, mass, multitude, pack, piece, pile, set, stack), groep (are, bank, batch, batch of animals, canons of inheritance, centralized wagon zone, cluster, collection, devolution upon death, ensemble, entity, good great group, group, group of 12 channels, grouping, heap, herd, order of succession, pack, pilot, set, social group, social status group, stick), drift (are, cluster, collection, deviation, drift, droop, drove, flock, group, heap, herd, leeway, pack, set). (various references)

Esperanto		bando (band, gang), aro (are, collection, group, heap, herd, set, square decametre). (various references)

Faeroese		savn (are, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, museum, pack, set), rúgva (are, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, pile, set, stack), harkalið (band, gang, horde, troop), hópur (accumulation, are, cluster, collection, crowd, group, heap, herd, lump, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, swarm), flokkur (are, class, cluster, collection, faction, gang, group, heap, herd, pack, party, set, side, squad, swarm, troop, troupe, type), fjøld (band, gang). (various references)

Farsi		گروه(دختران). (various references)

French		bande. (various references)

German		Schwarm (big thing, cloud, cluster, crush, flight, flock, heart-throb, horde, idol, migration, passion, school, shoal, skein, swarm). (various references)

Greek		σύναξη (assemblage), σμήνοσ (cluster, flock, swarm), συντροφιά (camaraderie, circle, companionship, company, coterie, fellow ship, partnership, partship, society), πλήθοσ (a lot of, army, battalion, crowd, heaps, host, huddle, large number of, lots, multitude, plenty of, ruck, shoal, swarm, throng, troop). (various references)

Hungarian		sereg (army, cohort, covey, crowd, flock, green machine, horde, nest, troop). (various references)

Indonesian		kelompok (batch, category, clique, group, shock), kawanan (covey, flock, swarm). (various references)

Italian		gruppo (are, band, batch, bunch, clump, cluster, collection, concern, corps, element group, faction, family, generating set, group, Group o, group of companies, Group of the Greens European Free Alliance, heap, herd, knot, lobby, lot, pack, panel, party, set, social group, social status group, square, stream, troop, trunk, trunk group, unit, Verts ALE, Verts/ALE). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		群れ (clump, cluster, crowd, flock, group, herd, school, swarm). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むれ (clump, cluster, crowd, flock, group, herd, school, swarm). (various references)

Manx		possan (band, band of people, bunch, clique, colony, covey, detachment, ensemble, flock, formation of troops, gaggle, group, grouping, levy, party, posse, pride of lions, squad, swarm). (various references)

Papiamen		kuadria (are, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, set), grupo (are, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, pack, set). (various references)

Pig Latin		evybay

Portuguese		bando (band, brood, cohort, Covey, flock, gang, group, herd, pack, promulgation, publication, squad, troop), grupo (assembly, brood, bunch, cluster, cohort, collection, committee, crew, crowd, denomination, flock, gang, generating set, group, grouping, heap, herd, junta, junto, plump, series, social group, social status group, team, tribe, troop, troupe). (various references)

Romanian		stol (Covey, flock, pack, swarm, troop), societate de domnişoare, cârd (band, drove, flock, gang, group, herd, pack, shoal, troop), întrunire (assembly, congregation, get together, meet, meeting, rally). (various references)

Russian		стая (flight, flock, horde, muster, pack, pride, school, swarm, troop), стадо (flock, herd). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skup (aggregate, assemblage, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convolution, costly, expensive, fancy, gathering, ingathering, meeting, troop), jato (cluster, flock, herd, mob, swarm), društvo (association, brotherhood, club, company, set, society). (various references)

Spanish		grupo (are, band, bank, batch, block, bracket, bunch, camp, clump, cluster, collection, complex, coterie, Covey, crowd, delegacy, delegation, gang, generating set, group, group of 12 channels, grouping, heap, herd, huddle, knot, lot, mine complex, mob, outfit, pack, panel, parcel, party, posse, pride, raft, range, set, social group, social status group, square decametre, team, tie, troop, troupe, unit), bandada (flight, flock, skein). (various references)

Swedish		flock (are, band, cluster, collection, Covey, crowd, flight, floc, floccule, flock, floss, group, heap, herd, horde, integral herd, pack, party, set, umbel). (various references)

Thai		ฝูงนก, กลุ่มคนกลุ่มใหญ่. (various references)

Turkish		kuş sürüsü (Covey, flight, pod, team), kızlar grubu, kız sürüsü. (various references)

Ukranian		компанія (clan, company, crowd, outfit, party, room), комплект (assembly, bank, battery, complement, kit, outfit, set, set out, shook, suite), зібрання (assembly, collection, muster). (various references)

Vietnamese		nhóm (coterie, crowd, galaxy, groupment, number, plump), đo� n (band, body, cloud, gang, legion, set, troop). (various references)

Welsh		twr o enethod, haid o adar. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	caterva, grex. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Bevy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bavay, beev, Beevi, beey, begy, beky, Belvik, Bemy, Benvie, beny, besy, Beuve, Beuy, bev, beva, bevay, beve, bevey, bevie, bevin, bevit, bevo, bevoy, Bevs, bivi, bivo, bivvi, bivvy, bivy, blev, blevey, blevy, Bouvy, bovi, bovy, brev, brevi, brevy, bv, Bvi, deevy, devy, Ebv, eby, Evvy, evy, obev, revvy, revy, sevy, Vevey. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bevy" (pronounced be"vē)
3	-e" v ē	Chevy, heavy, levee, levy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-v-y"
	-1 letter: bey, bye.
	-2 letters: be, by, ye.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-v-y"
	+3 letters: bravely, bravery, brevity, overbuy, verbify.
	+4 letters: bovinely, brevetcy, breviary, enviably, loveably, moveably, overbusy, overbuys, vendibly, verbally.
	+5 letters: abusively, everybody, herbivory, obversely, removably, vegetably, venerably, verbosely, verbosity, veritably.
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