group

A1 Topic:People & Society

US /ɡɹup/ UK /ɡɹuːp/ See IPA manual

Freq #840

Meanings

1

noun
A number of people or things considered together.

A group of students waited outside the classroom.
2

noun
A small number of people who play music together.

Her brother plays guitar in a rock group.
3

verb
To put people or things together in groups.

Please group the books by subject.

Verb forms

Verb forms are not available for this word yet.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a number of people or... grouping collection set

2 noun · a small number of people... band ensemble

More assemblebegathercategorisecategorize classify collect foregather gather throng

Opposites

individual monad union unity

Word family

Forms groupedgroups

Derived forms airgroupallogroupbattlegroupbiogroupchatgroupcodegroupcogroupcultigroupcybergroupdegroupdemogroupe-group

Appears in

Phrases (17)

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large group
a group consisting of many people

Adjective + noun
small group
a group consisting of only a few people

Adjective + noun
join a group
become part of an existing group

Verb + noun
form a group
bring people together to create a new group

Verb + noun
lead a group
be in charge of and direct the activities of a group

Verb + noun
run a group
organize and manage a group on a regular basis

Verb + noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). 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 (“…

groupe French gruppo Italian

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Topics

People & Society

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# group

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /ɡɹup/
**IPA (UK):** /ɡɹuːp/
**Frequency rank:** 840

## Meanings
1. A number of people or things considered together.
2. A small number of people who play music together.
3. To put people or things together in groups.

## Examples
- A group of students waited outside the classroom.
- Her brother plays guitar in a rock group.
- Please group the books by subject.

## Synonyms
- assemble
- begather
- categorise
- categorize
- classify
- collect
- foregather
- gather
- throng

## Antonyms
- individual
- monad
- union
- unity

## Derived Forms
- airgroup
- allogroup
- battlegroup
- biogroup
- chatgroup
- codegroup
- cogroup
- cultigroup
- cybergroup
- degroup
- demogroup
- e-group

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: groupe
- Root: gruppo

## Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). 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 (“…

## AI Etymology
Group comes from French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830. The historical chain runs through Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-, Proto-Germanic *kruppaz, Frankish *krupp, Vulgar Latin *cruppus, Italian gruppo, French groupe, and English group. In current use, the main senses are “A number of people or things considered together” and “A small number of people who play music together”.

## Topics
- People & Society

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