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cotery

cotery is the obsolete form of coterie.

Meaning of coterie

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.
    Synonyms:
    clique
  2. A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
    • The coterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.

Forms of cotery

pluralcoteries

Questions about cotery

What is cotery the obsolete form of?
Cotery is the obsolete form of coterie.

Words near cotery in the dictionary

  1. coterminating
  2. coterminosity
  3. coterminous
  4. coterminously
  5. coterminousness
  6. cotery
  7. cotes
  8. Cotesian
  9. cotest
  10. cotested
  11. cotesting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cotery (page history and authors); coterie (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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