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noun

verb (used with object)

to place or associate together in a group, as with others.
to arrange in or form into a group or groups.

verb (used without object)

to form a group.
to be part of a group.

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RELATED WORDS

body, crowd, faction, club, company, band, gang, party, society, organization, class, association, troop, meet, arrange, organize, gather, categorize, bevy, gathering

Origin of group

1665–75; < French groupe < Italian gruppo ≪ Germanic
Related formsgroup·wise, adverbsu·per·group, nounun·grouped, adjective

Synonyms for group

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12. order, organize, classify, combine.

Usage note

1, 2. See collective noun.
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Examples from the Web for group

Contemporary Examples of group

Historical Examples of group

  • The Milbreys, father and son, came up and greeted the group on the piazza.

    The Spenders

    Harry Leon Wilson

  • Mrs. Bines, so complacent overnight, was the most disconsolate one of the group.

    The Spenders

    Harry Leon Wilson

  • He always kept a group with him, and people said that he was wise to do it.

  • There is not a country in which one group is not afraid of some other group.

  • But of the arc which He disclosed no one group of His followers has as yet perceived the whole.

British Dictionary definitions for group

group

noun

a number of persons or things considered as a collective unit
  1. a number of persons bound together by common social standards, interests, etc
  2. (as modifier)group behaviour
a small band of players or singers, esp of pop music
a number of animals or plants considered as a unit because of common characteristics, habits, etc
grammar another word, esp in systemic grammar, for phrase (def. 1)
an association of companies under a single ownership and control, consisting of a holding company, subsidiary companies, and sometimes associated companies
two or more figures or objects forming a design or unit in a design, in a painting or sculpture
a military formation comprising complementary arms and services, usually for a purposea brigade group
an air force organization of higher level than a squadron
Also called: radical chem two or more atoms that are bound together in a molecule and behave as a single unita methyl group -CH 3 Compare free radical
a vertical column of elements in the periodic table that all have similar electronic structures, properties, and valenciesCompare period (def. 8)
geology any stratigraphical unit, esp the unit for two or more formations
maths a set that has an associated operation that combines any two members of the set to give another member and that also contains an identity element and an inverse for each element
See blood group

verb

to arrange or place (things, people, etc) in or into a group or (of things, etc) to form into a group

Word Origin for group

C17: from French groupe, of Germanic origin; compare Italian gruppo; see crop
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for group
n.

1690s, originally an art criticism term, "assemblage of figures or objects in a painting or design," from French groupe "cluster, group" (17c.), from Italian gruppo "group, knot," perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz "round mass, lump," and related to crop. Extended to "any assemblage" by 1736. Meaning "pop music combo" is from 1958.

v.

1718 (transitive), 1801 (intransitive), from group (n.). Related: Grouped; grouping.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Medicine definitions for group

group

[grōōp]

n.

An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation.
A class or collection of related objects or entities.
Two or more atoms that behave or that are regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.

v.

To place or arrange in a group.
To belong to or form a group.
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Science definitions for group

group

[grōōp]

Chemistry
  1. Two or more atoms that are bound together and act as a unit in a number of chemical compounds, such as a hydroxyl (OH) group.
  2. In the Periodic Table, a vertical column that contains elements having the same number of electrons in the outermost shell of their atoms. Elements in the same group have similar chemical properties. See Periodic Table.
Mathematics A set with an operation whose domain is all ordered pairs of members of the set, such that the operation is binary (operates on two elements) and associative, the set contains the identity element of the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element for the operation. The positive and negative integers and zero form a set that is a group under the operation of ordinary addition, since zero is the identity element of addition and the negative of each integer is its inverse. Groups are used extensively in quantum physics and chemistry to model phenomena involving symmetry and invariance.
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