group

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/ɡɹuːp/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A number of people or things considered together.

  2. 02

    verb

    To put people or things together.

Examples

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

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

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ɡɹup/
  • /ɡɹʉp/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. An effective divisor on a curve.

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

More examples

In context

  • The group does not advocate the use of violence.

  • A group of people is/are gathering in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.

  • there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group

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Origin

noun

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.