Definitions for cluster

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cluster clus·ter

Spelling: [kluhs-ter]

IPA: /ˈklʌs tər/

Cluster is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 224 anagrams from letters in cluster (celrstu).

Definitions for cluster

noun

1. a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch:
2. a group of things or persons close together:
3. U.S. Army. a small metal design placed on a ribbon representing an awarded medal to indicate that the same medal has been awarded again:
4. Phonetics. a succession of two or more contiguous consonants in an utterance, as the str- cluster of strap.
5. Astronomy. a group of neighboring stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that have essentially the same age and composition and thus supposedly a common origin. Compare globular cluster, open cluster, stellar association.

verb (used with object)

1. to gather into a cluster or clusters.
2. to furnish or cover with clusters.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a cluster or clusters:

Origin of cluster

before 900; Middle English; Old English cluster, clyster bunch; cognate with Low German kluster

Examples for cluster

Did they not, at their own church, cluster together like bees, when they saw me enter it?

But see the church in the hollow, and the folk who cluster in the churchyard!

Its cluster of snowy flowers suggested a corner of a royal garden.

To his credit, Huckabee is conscious of the fact that he will need a cluster of deep-pocketed patrons and bundlers.

Curious legends often cluster round these relics of ancient times.

But the crown itself (or headband or cluster of buds) screams disingenuous.

My millennial friends have waited in line beside a cluster of Orthodox women in long dark skirts to be seen by Peggy.

There is now a black dot in a cluster of reeds about two hundred meters downstream.

Art Basel itself is but the center of a cluster of mega-shows taking place in Miami this week.

He pointed down to a cluster of Lascars with white turbans on their heads.