Meaning

16 senses
  1. (collective)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 group of people is/are gathering in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.

    Gruppe

    гру́ппаgrúppa, коллекти́вkollektív

    гру́паhrúpa

  2. A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

    2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277, In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).

    Gruppe

    гру́ппаgrúppa

    гру́паhrúpa

    a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

  3. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

    Did you see the new jazz group?

    Gruppe, Musikgruppe

    гру́ппаgrúppa

  4. A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

    гру́ппаgrúppa

  5. A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

    Gruppe

    гру́ппаgrúppa

  6. A functional group.

    Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.

  7. A subset of a culture or of a society.

    Gruppe

    гру́ппаgrúppa

  8. An air force formation.

    Geschwader

    авиапо́лкaviapólk

  9. A collection of formations or rock strata.

  10. A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

  11. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

  12. 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.

Examples

1502 sentences
  1. I'd like to join your group.

    Я хотів би приєднатися до вашої групи.

    ruЯ бы хотел присоединиться к вашей группе.

    deIch würde der Gruppe gerne beitreten.

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  2. Tom isn't part of our group.

    Том не є частиною групи.

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  3. Aren't you part of this group?

    Хіба ти не частина цією групи?

    ruРазве ты не часть этой группы?

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  4. Our teacher separated us into two groups.

    Вчитель розділив нас на дві групи.

    ruНаш учитель поделил нас на две группы.

    deUnser Lehrer teilte uns in zwei Gruppen ein.

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  5. I don't enjoy traveling in large groups.

    Я не отримую задоволення від подорожей у великих групах.

    deIch reise nicht gerne in einer großen Gruppe.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
number of things or persons being in some relation to each other:
Русский
By meaning 2
number of things or persons being in some relation to each other:
air force formation:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
in Unix:
number of things or persons being in some relation to each other:
people who perform music together:
air force formation:

Origin

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group,

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”).

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Forms

plural: groups

Synonyms

9 synonyms
number of things or persons being in some relation to each other:collectionA1setA2
people who perform music together:bandA1ensemble
Close in meaning
  • any number of entities (members) considered as a unit:grouping
  • a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse:mathematical group
  • (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule:radicalchemical group

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

218 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • a group of
  • join our group
  • group of men
  • of our group
  • in our group
  • group of children
  • group of people
  • group of young
  • by a group
  • the group leader
  • of this group
  • group leader

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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