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coterie

UK/ˈkəʊtəɹi//ˈkoʊtəɹi/

coterie noun: a circle of individuals who associate with one another for a common purpose.

Noun

coterie (plural coteries)

  1. A circle of individuals who associate with one another for a common purpose.
    • The new junior employee joined our merry after-hours coterie.
    • A tightly knit coterie of executive powerbrokers made all the real decisions in the company.
    Synonyms:
    clique
  2. A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
    • The coterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.
    • The population of each coterie constantly changes over a period of a few months or years, by death, birth, and emigration. But the coterie boundary remains about the same, being learned by each prairie dog born into it.2000, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, page 473

coterie meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

coterie in Tamil

ஒருநோக்கக் குழு, சிறப்புக் குழுமம், தனிக் குழு

coterie in Bengali

ঘনিষ্ঠ মন্ডলী, ক্ষুদ্র গোষ্ঠী, সমমনা ব্যক্তিদের বিশেষ দল

coterie in Malayalam

inner circle, clique, set
താത്പര്യസംഘാതം, കൂട്ടുകെട്ട്, മിത്രഗണം, ഏകവിഷയതത്പരരുടെ ചെറുസംഘം, ഉൾവൃത്തം, കക്ഷി

coterie in Kannada

ಕೆಳೆಕೂಟ, ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ, ರಹಸ್ಯ ಕೂಟ, ಸಣ್ಣ ಕೂಟ

Examples of coterie in a sentence

  • The verses were copied out, handed about, sneered at, admired, passed from coterie to coterie.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I...
  • The branch was worked by pull-and push ^([sic]) trains, drawn or propelled by one of a small coterie of the sprightly little Wolverhampton type of 0-4-2 side tanks.1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
  • The old club coterie has very little excuse, and its loss would leave few casualties.2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian:
  • The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of each coterie, and does not extend between coteries.2001, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Emperor's Embrace: The Evolution of Fatherhood:

All 12 example sentences with coterie

Synonyms of coterie

Forms of coterie

pluralcoteries

Origin of coterie

Borrowed from French coterie.

Words formed from coterie

Questions about coterie

What does coterie mean?
Coterie means a circle of individuals who associate with one another for a common purpose.
What is coterie in Tamil?
Coterie in Tamil is ஒருநோக்கக் குழு, சிறப்புக் குழுமம், தனிக் குழு. See Coterie meaning in Tamil.
How do you use coterie in a sentence?
The verses were copied out, handed about, sneered at, admired, passed from coterie to coterie.
What part of speech is coterie?
Coterie is a noun.
How do you pronounce coterie?
Coterie is pronounced /ˈkəʊtəɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of coterie?
The plural of coterie is coteries.

Words near coterie in the dictionary

  1. cotenancies
  2. cotenancy
  3. cotenant
  4. cotenants
  5. cotenure
  6. coterie
  7. coterieism
  8. coteries
  9. coterminal
  10. coterminally
  11. coterminals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: coterie (page history and authors); coterie (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coterie (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coterie (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); coterie (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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