Definitions for group
group
group
Spelling: [groop]
IPA: /grup/
Group is a 5 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 46 anagrams from letters in group (gopru).
Definitions for group
noun
-
any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation:
-
a number of persons or things ranged or considered together as being related in some way.
-
Also called radical. Chemistry. two or more atoms specifically arranged, as the hydroxyl group, –OH.
Compare free radical.
-
Linguistics.
(in the classification of related languages within a family) a category of a lower order than a subbranch and of a higher order than a subgroup:
any grouping of languages, whether it is made on the basis of geography, genetic relationship, or something else.
-
Geology. a division of stratified rocks comprising two or more formations.
-
Military.
Army. a flexible administrative and tactical unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.
Air Force. an administrative and operational unit subordinate to a wing, usually composed of two or more squadrons.
-
Music. a section of an orchestra comprising the instruments of the same class.
-
Art. a number of figures or objects shown in an arrangement together.
-
Mathematics. an algebraic system that is closed under an associative operation, as multiplication or addition, and in which there is an identity element that, on operating on another element, leaves the second element unchanged, and in which each element has corresponding to it a unique element that, on operating on the first, results in the identity element.
-
Grammar (chiefly British) . a phrase:
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.
Origin of group
1665-75; French groupe Italian gruppo ≪ Germanic
Examples for group
Mrs. Bines, so complacent overnight, was the most disconsolate one of the group.
Yet only 24 percent of the 3,892 femicides the group identified in 2012 and 2013 were looked at by authorities.
Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
Faal told the FBI that his group was trying “restore democracy to The Gambia and improve the lives of its people.”
The Milbreys, father and son, came up and greeted the group on the piazza.
He always kept a group with him, and people said that he was wise to do it.
Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
But of the arc which He disclosed no one group of His followers has as yet perceived the whole.
Asian-Americans are a group of persuadable swing voters, growing faster than any other group in America today.
There is not a country in which one group is not afraid of some other group.