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Definition: Meaning of, group in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ɡruːp /

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group groups
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  1. [also + plural verb British English] British English several people or things that are all together in the same place
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  2. several people or things that are connected with each other
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  3. several companies that all have the same owner [↪  chain]
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  4. a number of musicians or singers who perform together, playing popular music [=  band]
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group grouped grouped
Present Participle Third Person Singular
grouping groups
  1. [intransitive and transitive] to come together and form a group, or to arrange things or people together in a group
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  2. [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to divide people or things into groups according to a system
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group used in phrases

  • ABO blood group system (noun)
    1. a classification system for the antigens of human blood; used in blood transfusion therapy; four groups are A and B and AB and O
  • ABO group (noun)
    1. a classification system for the antigens of human blood; used in blood transfusion therapy; four groups are A and B and AB and O
  • Abelian group (noun)
    1. a group that satisfies the commutative law
  • Adapid group (noun)
    1. extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendants probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
  • Armed Islamic Group (noun)
    1. a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in 1992; aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state
  • Bloomsbury Group (noun)
    1. an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles
  • Bloomsbury Group, the
    1. a group of artists and writers who lived and met each other regularly in Bloomsbury in the early part of the 20th century. The most famous member of the group was Virginia Woolf.
  • First of October Antifascist Resistance Group (noun)
    1. illegal an armed wing of the Communist Party of Spain; seeks to overthrow the Spanish government and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist regime
  • Group Theatre, the
    1. a group of actors and DIRECTOR s in the US who worked together from 1931 to 1940 to produce plays with a political message. Many of the people in the group, such as Elia Kazan and Lee STRASBERG, became very important in the US theatre.
  • Group of Eight (noun)
    1. as from 1998 group of advanced industrialized nations:United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, USA, Canada, and Russia
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