"group" Definition

Definitions for the word "group" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
1 number of persons or things located close together, or considered or classed together. 2 number of people working together etc. 3 number of commercial companies under common ownership. 4 ensemble playing popular music. 5 division of an air force etc. v. 1 form or be formed into a group. 2 (often foll. By with) place in a group or groups. [italian gruppo]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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