group

Meaning

Noun

1. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
2. A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
3. (archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
4. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
5. A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
6. A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
7. A functional group.
8. A subset of a culture or of a society.
9. An air force formation.
10. A collection of formations or rock strata.
11. A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
12. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
13. A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
14. A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
15. A commercial organization.

Verb

1. (transitive) To put together to form a group.
2. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Synonyms

crowd

flock

party

🥳

collection

herd

team

class

gang

cluster

band

set

company

bunch

division

category

unit

classify

troop

faction

heap

sort

kind

multitude

community

squad

bevy

mass

body

pack

throng

mob

swarm

type

assemblage

section

crew

association

collective

family

👪

batch

side

assembly

gather

clump

tribe

grouping

clique

gathering

pile

branch

Translations

groupe

Gruppe

grupo

gruppo

groep

grupo

ομάδα

grup

grup

grouper

Menge

ensemble

gruppieren

circulus

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹuːp/

Etymology

Cognate with German: Kropf

Cognate with Old English: cropp

Cognate with English: crop

Cognate with Dutch: krop

Cognate with Icelandic: kroppr

In summary

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Frankish *krupp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).
In the “group theory” sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830.
Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

Sentences

A key objective of the group was the union of art and the people .

In May the group decided to try to expand their fan base into Russia .

The group was particularly influenced by the French color art .

Not long afterwards the group disbanded .

The group demanded Bakshi be removed from production of the series .

Fred Deakin was a fan of the group in his adolescence .