group

Meanings

Plural: groups

Noun

any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
An effective divisor on a curve.
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
A functional group.
A subset of a culture or of a society.
An air force formation.
A collection of formations or rock strata.
A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
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.
A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
A commercial organization.

Verb

arrange into a group or groups
- "Can you group these shapes together?"
form a group or group together
To put together to form a group.
To come together to form a group.

Origin / Etymology

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Frankish *krupp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).
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 (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

Synonyms

aggroup, amass, assemble, band, begather, categorise, categorize, chemical group, classify, collect, collect up, collection, ensemble, foregather, gather, gather together, gather up, group, grouping, mathematical group, radical, round up, set, throng

Antonyms

individual, monad, union, unity

Scrabble Score: 8

group is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
group is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
group is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

group is a valid Words With Friends word