groups
/ɡɹuːps/
groups is the plural of group.
groups is the third-person singular simple present indicative of group.
Meaning of group
Noun
group (plural groups)
- 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
- 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
- An effective divisor on a curve.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- Did you see the new jazz group?
- A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
Phrases with groups
- age groups
- Lie groups
- pop groups
- rap groups
- Ree groups
- tag groups
- book groups
- cell groups
- chat groups
- Chow groups
- demo groups
- free groups
127 more phrasesFewer phrases
- girl groups
- hate groups
- head groups
- main groups
- peer groups
- play groups
- rock groups
- skin groups
- stem groups
- task groups
- tour groups
- user groups
- Weyl groups
- Witt groups
- work groups
- block groups
- blood groups
- boron groups
- braid groups
- crown groups
- cycle groups
- focus groups
- front groups
- lobby groups
- music groups
- point groups
- space groups
- study groups
- total groups
- youth groups
- action groups
- affine groups
- Brauer groups
- circle groups
- cyclic groups
- ethnic groups
- friend groups
- frieze groups
- galaxy groups
- Galois groups
- ginger groups
- income groups
- linear groups
- matrix groups
- Möbius groups
- silica groups
- simple groups
- social groups
- status groups
- Suzuki groups
- symbol groups
- target groups
- abelian groups
- control groups
- Coxeter groups
- Cremona groups
- derived groups
- descent groups
- leaving groups
- Markush groups
- support groups
- unitary groups
- working groups
- additive groups
- advocacy groups
- breakout groups
- campaign groups
- dihedral groups
- Fuchsian groups
- groups of death
- homology groups
- interest groups
- laughing groups
- minority groups
- pressure groups
- quotient groups
- solvable groups
- splinter groups
- sporadic groups
- steering groups
- symmetry groups
- triangle groups
- algebraic groups
- capturing groups
- community groups
- encounter groups
- Euclidean groups
- profinite groups
- symmetric groups
- technical groups
- wallpaper groups
- functional groups
- monogenous groups
- orthogonal groups
- prosthetic groups
- protecting groups
- ratepayers groups
- symplectic groups
- alternating groups
- commutative groups
- fundamental groups
- groups of galaxies
- groups of Lie type
- lamplighter groups
- living room groups
- permutation groups
- surjunctive groups
- topological groups
- automorphism groups
- baby monster groups
- free abelian groups
- Grothendieck groups
- large quasar groups
- monophyletic groups
- neighbouring groups
- flying saucer groups
- mapping class groups
- non-capturing groups
- general linear groups
- special linear groups
- locally compact groups
- paratopological groups
- renormalization groups
- special unitary groups
- linear algebraic groups
- special interest groups
- algebraic fundamental groups
Words that rhyme with groups
Questions about groups
- What is groups the plural of?
- Groups is the plural of group.
- How do you pronounce groups?
- Groups is pronounced /ɡɹuːps/.
Words near groups in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: groups (page history and authors); group (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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