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See also: Group

English

Alternative forms

groop (obsolete), groupe (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *kruppaz

Frankish *kruppbor.

Vulgar Latin *cruppus

Italian gruppobor.

French groupebor.

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Italian gruppobor.

English group

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.

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. Compare Persian گروه.

Pronunciation

enPR: gro͞op:
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɹuːp/
- (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɹup/
  - Audio (US): (file)
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ɡɹʉp/
Rhymes: -uːp

Noun

group (plural groups)

(collective) A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
  Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
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.
(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192:
  Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
- 1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112:
  In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).
- 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).
(geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz group?
(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
Coordinate term: period
(chemistry) A functional group.
Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
(military) An air force formation.
(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
(computing) 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.
(music) 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.
(sports) 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.
- 2012 October 15, Sid Lowe, “Spain aim to take 'very big step' towards 2014 World Cup against France”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
  It is the third of eight matches that Spain will play in Group I, but the coach Vicente del Bosque has described it as being more akin to the first leg of a cup semi-final.
  (Can we archive this URL?)
(business) A commercial organization.
(uncountable) Group therapy.
- 1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 194:
  Aside from occasional moments of belligerence, he was a pretty affable guy. I rather liked him and, I guess, wanted him to like me. But his affability also included the odd "faggot" joke, which left me dubious over talking with him about being gay, even in "group."

Synonyms

(number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
(people who perform music together): band, ensemble
See also Thesaurus:group

Hypernyms

(in group theory): monoid

Hyponyms

Derived terms

some unsorted (may also be hyponyms)

Descendants

→ Gulf Arabic: قروب (grūp)
→ Hijazi Arabic: قروب (grūb)
→ Japanese: グループ (gurūpu)
→ Korean: 그룹 (geurup)
→ Malay: grup
⇒ Sranan Tongo: grupu
→ Tongan: kulupu
→ Urdu: گرُوپ (grūp)
→ Ushojo: گروپ (grōp)
→ Welsh: grŵp

Translations

number of things or persons being in some relation to each other

Afrikaans: groep (af)
Albanian: grup (sq) m
Arabic: مَجْمُوعَة (ar) f (majmūʕa), جَمَاعَة (ar) f (jamāʕa), نَفَر (ar) m (nafar), طَائِفَة (ar) f (ṭāʔifa)
Gulf Arabic: قروب n (grūp), مجموعة f (majmūʕa)

Hijazi Arabic: مجموعة f (majmūʕa), جَمَاعَة f (jamāʕa), قروب m (gurūb, grūb)
Armenian: խումբ (hy) (xumb)
Asturian: grupu m
Azerbaijani: qrup (az), dəstə (az)
Bashkir: төркөм (törköm)
Basque: talde (eu)
Belarusian: гру́па f (hrúpa)
Bengali: গ্রুপ (bn) (grup)
Bhojpuri: समूह (samūh)
Bulgarian: гру́па (bg) f (grúpa)
Burmese: အစု (my) (a.cu.)
Catalan: grup (ca) m
Chichewa: gulu
Chinese:
Mandarin: 集團 / 集团 (zh) (jítuán), 群 (zh) (qún), 組 / 组 (zh) (zǔ)
Czech: skupina (cs) f
Danish: gruppe (da) c
Dutch: groep (nl) f, verzameling (nl) f
Esperanto: grupo (eo)
Estonian: rühm (et), grupp
Faroese: bólkur (fo) m, flokkur m
Finnish: joukko (fi), ryhmä (fi)
French: groupe (fr) m
Frisian:
West Frisian: kloft
Galician: grupo (gl) m, fatado m, fato (gl) m, feixe (gl) m
Georgian: ჯგუფი (ǯgupi)
German: Gruppe (de) f
Greek: ομάδα (el) f (omáda)
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} aty (gn)
Haitian Creole: gwoup
Hausa: ƙungiya (ha)
Hebrew: קְבוּצָה (he) f (k'vutzá)
Hindi: समूह (hi) m (samūh), दल (hi) m (dal), गुट (hi) m (guṭ)
Hungarian: csoport (hu)
Icelandic: hópur (is) m
Indonesian: kelompok (id), grup (id)
Ingrian: joukko, parvi, partti, gruppa
Irish: dream (ga) m
Italian: gruppo (it) m, formazione (it) f
Japanese: 集団 (ja) (しゅうだん, shūdan), グループ (ja) (gurūpu), 組 (ja) (くみ, kumi), 群 (ja) (ぐん, gun) (people or animals), 群れ (ja) (むれ, mure) (animals)
Kazakh: топ (top), қауым (qawım)
Khmer: ក្រុម (km) (krom)
Korean: 그룹 (ko) (geurup), 그루빠 (ko) (geuruppa) (North Korea), 집단(集團) (ko) (jipdan), 군(群) (ko) (gun)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: کۆمەڵ (komell)

Northern Kurdish: kom (ku)
Kyrgyz: группа (ky) (gruppa), топ (ky) (top)
Lao: ກຸ່ມ (lo) (kum)
Latin: circulus m, grex (la) m, globus (la) m, turma (la) f
New Latin: grupus m
Latvian: grupa f
Lithuanian: grupė (lt) f
Macedonian: група f (grupa)
Malay: kumpulan (ms)
Marathi: गट m (gaṭ), समूह m (samūh)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бүлэг (mn) (büleg)

Mongolian script: ᠪᠦᠯᠦᠭ (bülüg)
Nepali: समूह (ne) (samūha)
Norman: (people) dgaîngue f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gruppe (no) m or f

Nynorsk: gruppe f
Occitan: grop (oc) m
Old English: hēap m
Pashto: ډله (ps) f (ḍála), گروه (ps) m (groh)
Persian:
Dari: گُرُوه (gurūh), مَجْمُوعَه (majmū'a)

Iranian Persian: گُروه (goruh), مَجْموعِه (majmu'e)
Plautdietsch: Grupp f
Polish: grupa (pl) f, kupa (pl) f (archaic, rare)
Portuguese: grupo (pt) m
Romanian: grup (ro) n
Russian: гру́ппа (ru) f (grúppa), коллекти́в (ru) m (kollektív)
Scottish Gaelic: cuideachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гру̏па f, ску̏пина f

Latin: grȕpa (sh) f, skȕpina (sh) f
Sicilian: gruppu (scn) m
Slovak: skupina (sk) f
Slovene: skupína (sl) f
Southern Altai: группа (gruppa)
Spanish: grupo (es) m, hatajo (es) m (may be used disparaging)
Swahili: kundi (sw)
Swedish: grupp (sv) c
Tajik: гурӯҳ (tg) (gurüh)
Tatar: төркем (tt) (törkem)
Telugu: సమూహం (te) (samūhaṁ), గుంపు (te) (gumpu)
Thai: กลุ่ม (th) (glùm)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tocharian B: kraupe
Tumbuka: gulu
Turkish: grup (tr), küme (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: قالابالق (kalabalık), كومه (küme) (of people)
Turkmen: gruppa, top
Ukrainian: гру́па (uk) f (hrúpa)
Urdu: گِروہْ m (giroh), گُرُوپ m (gurūp), گْرُوپ m (grūp), سَمُوہ m (samūh)
Uyghur: گۇرۇپپا (guruppa), گۇرۇھ (guruh)
Uzbek: gruppa (uz), guruh (uz), toʻp (uz), toʻda (uz)
Vietnamese: nhóm (vi)
Welsh: twr (cy)
Yiddish: גרופּע f (grupe)
Zazaki: gome, guruh
Zhuang: cizdonz

in group theory

Afrikaans: groep (af)
Armenian: խումբ (hy) (xumb)
Basque: talde (eu)
Bulgarian: гру́па (bg) f (grúpa)
Catalan: grup (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 群 (zh) (qún)
Czech: grupa (cs) f
Danish: gruppe (da)
Dutch: groep (nl) f
Esperanto: grupo (eo)
Estonian: rühm (et)
Finnish: ryhmä (fi)
French: groupe (fr) m
German: Gruppe (de) f
Greek: ομάδα (el) f (omáda)
Hebrew: חֲבוּרָה (he) f (ḥavurá)
Hungarian: csoport (hu)
Icelandic: grúpa f
Indonesian: grup (id)
Italian: gruppo (it) m
Japanese: 群 (ja) (ぐん, gun)
Khmer: ក្រុម (km) (krom)
Portuguese: grupo (pt) m
Romanian: grup (ro)
Russian: гру́ппа (ru) f (grúppa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гру̏па f

Latin: grȕpa (sh) f
Spanish: grupo (es) m
Swahili: kundi (sw)
Swedish: grupp (sv) c
Ukrainian: гру́па (uk) f (hrúpa)

people who perform music together

Afrikaans: groep (af)
Armenian: խումբ (hy) (xumb)
Bashkir: төркөм (törköm)
Basque: talde (eu)
Bulgarian: гру́па (bg) f (grúpa)
Czech: skupina (cs) f, kapela (cs) f
Finnish: yhtye (fi)
German: Gruppe (de) f, Musikgruppe (de) f
Greek: συγκρότημα (el) n (sygkrótima)
Hebrew: לַהֲקָה (he) f (lahaká)
Hungarian: együttes (hu), zenekar (hu)
Indonesian: grup (id)
Khmer: ក្រុម (km) (krom)
Korean: 그룹 (ko) (geurup)
Macedonian: група f (grupa)
Persian: گروه (fa) (goruh)
Portuguese: grupo (pt) m
Romanian: grup (ro) n
Russian: гру́ппа (ru) f (grúppa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гру̏па f

Latin: grȕpa (sh) f
Spanish: grupo (es) m
Swahili: kundi (sw)
Swedish: grupp (sv) c

small number of galaxies

Finnish: ryhmä (fi)
Indonesian: gugus (id)
Russian: гру́ппа (ru) f (grúppa)
Swahili: kundi (sw)
Swedish: hop (sv) c

column in the periodic table

Afrikaans: groep (af)
Armenian: խումբ (hy) (xumb)
Bulgarian: гру́па (bg) f (grúpa)
Catalan: grup (ca) m
Dutch: groep (nl) f
Esperanto: grupo (eo)
Finnish: ryhmä (fi)
German: Gruppe (de) f
Hungarian: csoport (hu)
Italian: gruppo (it) m
Portuguese: grupo (pt) m
Romanian: grupă (ro) f
Russian: гру́ппа (ru) f (grúppa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гру̏па f

Latin: grȕpa (sh) f
Spanish: grupo (es) m
Swahili: kundi (sw)
Swedish: grupp (sv) c

functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule — see functional group

subset of a culture or of a society

Afrikaans: groep (af)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 組 / 组 (zh) (zǔ)
Finnish: ryhmä (fi)
German: Gruppe (de) f
Hindi: वर्ण (hi) m (varṇ), समुदाय (hi) m (samudāy)
Indonesian: kelompok (id)
Portuguese: tribo (pt) f
Russian: гру́ппа (ru) f (grúppa)
Scottish Gaelic: cuideachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гру̏па f

Latin: grȕpa (sh) f
Swahili: makundi (sw)

air force formation

Afrikaans: groep (af)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大隊 / 大队 (zh) (dàduì)
Finnish: ryhmä (fi)
German: Geschwader (de)
Hebrew: לַהַק (he) m (láhak)
Italian: formazione di volo f
Russian: авиапо́лк (ru) m (aviapólk)
Swahili: makundi (sw)

collection of formations or rock strata

Italian: formazione rocciosa f
Swahili: kundi (sw), makundi (sw)

in Unix

Czech: skupina (cs) f
Finnish: ryhmä (fi)
German: Benutzergruppe (de) f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гру̏па f

Latin: grȕpa (sh) f
Swahili: makundi (sw)
Swedish: grupp (sv) c

a set of teams playing against each other in a division, while at the same not playing against other sets of teams of the same division.

Afrikaans: groep (af)
Bulgarian: гру́па (bg) f (grúpa)
Finnish: lohko (fi)
German: Gruppe (de) f
Marathi: गट m (gaṭ)
Swedish: grupp (sv) c

References

group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)

(transitive) To put together to form a group.
group the dogs by hair colour
(intransitive) To come together to form a group.
- 2021 October 1, Calder Katyal, “Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 January 2026:
  For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal.
(transitive, sports) To eliminate in the group stage of a competition.
- 2021 December 7, @leocitic [leocic], Twitter‎^[3] (post), archived from the original on 7 December 2021:
  Clubs like Real Sociedad are getting grouped in the Europa League. Even clubs like Atletico Madrid and Villareal are finding it hard to progress to the R16 in the UCL.