team
- a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest: a football team.
- a number of persons associated in some joint action: a team of advisers.
- two or more horses, oxen, or other animals harnessed together to draw a vehicle, plow, or the like.
- one or more draft animals together with the harness and vehicle drawn.
- a family of young animals, especially ducks or pigs.
- Obsolete. offspring or progeny; lineage or stock.
- to join together in a team.
- Chiefly Northern U.S. Older Use. to convey or transport by means of a team; haul.
- to drive a team.
- to gather or join in a team, a band, or a cooperative effort (usually followed by up, together, etc.).
- of, relating to, or performed by a team: a team sport; team effort.
Origin of team
Synonyms
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team
- a group of people organized to work together
- a group of players forming one of the sides in a sporting contest
- two or more animals working together to pull a vehicle or agricultural implement
- such animals and the vehiclethe coachman riding his team
- dialect a flock, herd, or brood
- obsolete ancestry
- (when intr, often foll by up) to make or cause to make a teamhe teamed George with Robert
- (tr) US and Canadian to drag or transport in or by a team
- (intr) US and Canadian to drive a team
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for team up
team
v.
1550s, "to harness beasts in a team," from team (n.). The meaning "to come together as a team" (usually with up) is attested from 1932. Related: Teamed; teaming.
team
n.
Old English team "set of draft animals yoked together," from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (cf. Old Norse taumr, Old Frisian tam, Dutch toom, Old High German zoum, German Zaum "bridle"), probably literally "that which draws," from *taugmaz "action of drawing," from series *taukh-, *tukh-, *tug-, represented by Old English togian "to pull, drag" (see tow), from PIE *deuk- "pull" (related to Latin ducere "to lead;" see duke (n.)). Applied to people in Old English, especially "group of people acting together to bring suit." Team spirit is recorded from 1928. Team player attested from 1886, originally in baseball.