group

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A number of people or things considered together.

   A group of students waited outside the classroom.

2. 2
   noun

   A small number of people who play music together.

   Her brother plays guitar in a rock group.

3. 3
   verb

   To put people or things together in groups.

   Please group the books by subject.

Common collocations

• large group Adjective + noun
• small group Adjective + noun
• join a group Verb + noun
• form a group Verb + noun
• lead a group Verb + noun
• run a group Verb + noun
• group singing Adjective + noun
• support group Adjective + noun

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 (“…

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