The actor's illustrious career was honored at a gala event attended by a bevy of A-list celebrities.
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Bevy
/ˈbɛvi/
Synonyms for "bevy" (107 found)
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More general
9 entriesMore specific
4 entriesCollocations
6 entriesbevy of beautiesbevy of editorsbevy of quailsbevy of reportersbevy of scholarsbevy of supporters
Inflections
1 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 18 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- երամ noun (large group of birds)
- տարմ noun (large group of birds)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ято noun (large group of birds)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 群 noun (large group of birds)
Czech
3 entries- hejno noun (large group of birds)
- houf noun (group of persons)
- skupina noun (group of persons)
Dutch
3 entries- schare noun (large group of birds)
- vlucht noun (large group of birds)
- zwerm noun (large group of birds)
Finnish
1 entries- parvi noun (large group of birds)
French
2 entries- passée noun (large group of birds)
- vol noun (large group of birds)
German
2 entries- Schar noun (large group of birds)
- Schwarm noun (large group of birds)
Hungarian
1 entries- csapat noun (large group of birds)
Italian
3 entries- passo noun (large group of birds)
- stormo noun (large group of birds)
- volata noun (large group of birds)
Japanese
1 entries- 群れ noun (large group of birds)
Occitan
2 entries- banda noun (large group of birds)
- bandada noun (large group of birds)
Portuguese
1 entries- bando noun (large group of birds)
Romanian
1 entries- stol noun (large group of birds)
Russian
2 entries- ста́йка noun (group of persons)
- ста́я noun (large group of birds)
Spanish
2 entries- bandada noun (large group of birds)
- grupo noun (group of persons)
Swedish
1 entries- flock noun (large group of birds)
Turkish
1 entries- kuş sürüsü noun (large group of birds)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
He was accompanied by a bevy of buxom babes.
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There are many collective nouns for a group of otters, including 'bevy', 'family', 'romp', and, when they are in water, 'raft'.
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In the "New Deal" years of the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt created a bevy of government agencies that he hoped would pull the nation out of the Great Depression. They produced a nationwide social-security system, farm subsidies, and jobs for struggling workers, who cleared forests, built highways, wrote guidebooks to the states, photographed rural families and dust-blown towns, and created public works of art across the nation.
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