group

UK/ɡɹuːp//ɡɹup/

group noun: a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

Noun

group (plural groups)

(collective) A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30
Synonyms:

collection, set
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192
- In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of...1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112
(archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- Did you see the new jazz group?
Synonyms:

band, ensemble
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
A functional group.
- Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
A subset of a culture or of a society.
An air force formation.
A collection of formations or rock strata.
A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

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A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- It is the third of eight matches that Spain will play in Group I, but the coach Vicente del Bosque has described it as being more akin to the first leg of a cup semi-final.2012 October 15, Sid Lowe, “Spain aim to take 'very big step' towards 2014 World Cup against France”, in The Guardian
A commercial organization.
(uncountable) Group therapy.
- Aside from occasional moments of belligerence, he was a pretty affable guy. I rather liked him and, I guess, wanted him to like me. But his affability also included the odd "faggot" joke, which left me dubious over talking with him about being gay, even in "group."1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 194

Verb

group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)

(transitive) To put together to form a group.
- group the dogs by hair colour
Synonyms:

amass
(intransitive) To come together to form a group.
- For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal.2021 October 1, Calder Katyal, “Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods”, in The Atlantic
Synonyms:

assemble
(transitive) To eliminate in the group stage of a competition.
- Clubs like Real Sociedad are getting grouped in the Europa League. Even clubs like Atletico Madrid and Villareal are finding it hard to progress to the R16 in the UCL.2022 April 5, leocic (@leocitic), “leocic on Twitter”, in Twitter

group meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

group in Hindi

number of things or persons being in some relation to each other: समूह samūh, दल dal, गुट guṭ
subset of a culture or of a society: वर्ण varṇ, समुदाय samudāy

group in Tamil

குழு, குழாம், குழுமம், இனம், கணம், உண்டை

group in Marathi

number of things or persons being in some relation to each other: गट gaṭ, समूह samūh
a set of teams playing against each other in a division, while at the same not playing against other sets of teams of the same division.: गट gaṭ

group in Urdu

number of things or persons being in some relation to each other: گِروہْ giroh, گُرُوپ gurūp, گْرُوپ grūp, سَمُوہ samūh

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group in Bengali: গ্রুপ grup
group in Telugu: సమూహం samūhaṁ, గుంపు gumpu
group in Malayalam: ഗണം gaṇaṁ, കൂട്ടം kūṭṭaṁ, വൃന്ദം vr̥ndaṁ, വ്യൂഹം vyūhaṁ
group in Kannada: ಗುಂಪು gumpu
group in Punjabi: ਮੰਡਲ maṇḍal, ਸਮੂਹ samūh
group in Odia: ଦଳ daḷa, ଖଣ୍ଡ khaṇḍa
group in Sanskrit: मण्डलिका maṇḍalikā, यूथ yūthá
group in Sinhala: වටය waṭaya
group in Nepali: समूह samūha
group in Pashto: ډله ḍála, گروه groh
group in Arabic: مَجْمُوعَة majmūʕa, جَمَاعَة jamāʕa, نَفَر nafar, طَائِفَة ṭāʔifa
group in Malay: kumpulan
group in Indonesian: kelompok, grup, gugus
group in Persian: گروه goruh, گروهیدن, گروهادن
group in Thai: กลุ่ม glùm
group in Vietnamese: nhóm
group in Myanmar: အစု a.cu.

Examples of group in a sentence

there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group
A group of people is/are gathering in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups.1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112:

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Forms of group

Noun
plural	groups
alternative form	groop
alternative form	groupe
Verb
third-person singular present	groups
present participle	grouping
past participle	grouped
past	grouped

Past tense of group: grouped

Plural of group: groups

Origin of group

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”). 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. Compare Persian گروه.

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Questions about group

What does group mean?: Group means a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
What is group in Hindi?: Group in Hindi is समूह (samūh), दल (dal), गुट (guṭ). See Group meaning in Hindi.
How do you use group in a sentence?: there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group
What part of speech is group?: Group can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce group?: Group is pronounced /ɡɹuːp/ (UK).
What is the plural of group?: The plural of group is groups.

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