How do you use the word "group" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "group" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "group": Imagine, for the sake of argument, a tribal group in which mother-son incest was countenanced. A group of foreigners arrived in Edo, i.e. Tokyo.

Group Meaning

/ɡɹuːp/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

nounA set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

Sentence Examples

Imagine, for the sake of argument, a tribal group in which mother-son incest was countenanced.

A group of foreigners arrived in Edo, i.e. Tokyo.

The group does not advocate the use of violence.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

radical

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

A ____ of students gathered in the library to study together.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

A large ____ of tourists stood in front of the museum, waiting for their guide to lead them inside.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). 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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting." — 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

"Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem." — 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192:

"In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z)." — 1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112:

"It is the third of eight matches that Spain will play in Group I, but the coach Vicente del Bosque has described it as being more akin to the first leg of a cup semi-final." — 2012 October 15, Sid Lowe, “Spain aim to take 'very big step' towards 2014 World Cup against France”, in The Guardian:

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