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team

/ˈtiːm/

team noun: a set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. Also the misspelling of teem.

Noun

team (plural teams)

  1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
    • It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
    • The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111
  2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
    • We need more volunteers for the netball team.
    • The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
  3. (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
    • she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C....
    • a long team of snowy swans on high1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  4. (UK, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
    • TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring...1871, Alexander M. Burrill, Law Dictionary & Glossary, volume II
  5. A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
    • As Jan. 1, 2020, approaches, it turns out there is a Team Zero and a Team 1 – those who believe the new decade will begin after midnight on the upcoming New Year's Eve and those who believe the burgeoning celebrations of a new decade (and all the "last decade" retrospectives) are in fact a year...2019 December 27, Bill Chappell, “People Can't Even Agree On When The Decade Ends”, in NPR

Verb

team (third-person singular simple present teams, present participle teaming, simple past and past participle teamed)

  1. (intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.
    • They teamed to complete the project.
    Synonyms:
    team up
  2. (broadly, intransitive) To go together well; to harmonize.
    • Rich, creamy avocado is cut back by the citrus sharpness of grapefruit in this Israeli-inspired salad. It's brilliant for a brunchy breakfast, and teams well with grilled salmon, tuna, or mackerel for dinner.2005, Jill Dupleix, Good Cooking: The New Basics, page 32
  3. (transitive) To convey or haul with a team.
    • to team lumber
    • the farmer has been all winter teaming wood along the river1857, Henry David Thoreau journal entry for Feb. 4 1857
  4. (transitive) To form together into a team.
    • to team oxen
  5. (transitive) To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.

Interjection

team

  1. (colloquial) Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.

Proper noun capitalized: Team

Team

  1. A river in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, which flows into the River Tyne. It has other names further upstream in County Durham.

Also used as

team is also the misspelling of teem.

team meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

team in Hindi

group of people
टीम ṭīm, दल dal

team in Tamil

set of draught animals
இழுவை விலங்குகள் iḻuvai vilaṅkukaḷ
group of people
அணி aṇi, கூட்டணி kūṭṭaṇi, குழு kuḻu

team in Marathi

group of people
संघ saṅgha, गट gaṭ, टीम ṭīm

team in Urdu

group of people
ٹِیم ṭīm, دَل dal
More languagesFewer languages
team in Bengali
টীম ṭim
team in Telugu
జట్టు jaṭṭu, బృందం br̥ndaṁ
team in Malayalam
ടീം
team in Kannada
ತಂಡ, ತಂಡವು, ತಂಡದವರು
team in Punjabi
ਟੀਮ
team in Gujarati
ટીમ, ટીમને
team in Odia
ଦଳ, ଦଳଗତ, ଦଳକୁ
team in Nepali
टोली, टिम, टीम
team in Pashto
ټيم ṭim
team in Tagalog
kupunan, kuponan
team in Arabic
فَرِيق farīq
team in Malay
pasukan
team in Indonesian
tim
team in Thai
ทีม tiim, เหล่า lào
team in Vietnamese
đội, ban
team in Myanmar
အစု a.cu.

Examples of team in a sentence

  • The blue team are on six points and the red team on five.
  • Winning the championship brought the team immense accolade from sports analysts worldwide.
  • His lieutenants hired a team of miners to help spring him.

All 40 example sentences with team

Synonyms of team

Forms of team

Noun
pluralteams
Verb
third-person singular presentteams
present participleteaming
past participleteamed
pastteamed

Past tense of team: teamed

Plural of team: teams

Origin of team

From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Danish tømme (“rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

Possibly of Brythonic origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European but the exact root is unclear, with suggestions including *temH- (“dark”), *temh₁- (“to cut”), and *teh₂- (“to melt, flow”).

Words formed from team

Phrases with team

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Words that rhyme with team

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Questions about team

What does team mean?
Team means a set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
What is team in Hindi?
Team in Hindi is टीम (ṭīm), दल (dal). See Team meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is team?
Team can be a noun, a verb, an interjection or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce team?
Team is pronounced /ˈtiːm/.
What is the plural of team?
The plural of team is teams.

Words near team in the dictionary

  1. Teall
  2. teallite
  3. Tealls
  4. tealness
  5. teals
  6. team
  7. team building
  8. team deathmatch
  9. team deathmatches
  10. Team Edward
  11. team game

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Adapted from Wiktionary: team (page history and authors); Team (page history and authors); team (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); team (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); team (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); team (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); team (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); team (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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