group
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
Noun 4 meanings
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
“there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group”
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
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.
Verb 3 meanings
To put together to form a group.
“group the dogs by hair colour”
To come together to form a group.
To eliminate in the group stage of a competition.
Etymology
From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”). In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830.
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GROUP at a glance
GROUP has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (G 2 + R 1 + O 1 + U 1 + P 3) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #226 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with group
All rhymesOne letter away
- GROUT6
- CROUP9
- GROUF9
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