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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Danish tømme (“rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.
Noun
team (plural teams)
- A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.
1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 111:The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.
- Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
We need more volunteers for the netball team. The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
- (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her
1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:a long team of snowy swans on high
- (UK, law, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
1871, Alexander M. Burrill, Law Dictionary & Glossary[1], volume II:TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.
- A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
2019 December 27, Bill Chappell, “People Can't Even Agree On When The Decade Ends”, in National Public Radio[2], Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, archived from the original on 26 September 2026:As Jan. 1, 2020, approaches, it turns out there is a Team Zero and a Team 1 – those who believe the new decade will begin after midnight on the upcoming New Year's Eve and those who believe the burgeoning celebrations of a new decade (and all the "last decade" retrospectives) are in fact a year early.
Usage notes
- In British English, team is construed as plural, emphasizing the members. In US English it is construed as singular, emphasizing the group. This conforms to the general practice in the two dialects for collective nouns.
- British English:
2012, Institute of Leadership & Management, Building the Team[3], page 124:At the storming stage, the team are trying to establish relationships with one another, and to determine who will take the dominant roles.
- American English:
2010, William G. Dyer; W. Gibb Dyer, Jr.; Jeffrey H. Dyer, Team Building: Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance[4]:When a subordinate wants to give feedback to a boss, this is typically only done in a roundabout way through the “grapevine” (other members of the team), usually when the team is out at night drinking.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: թիմ (tʻim)
- → Bengali: টীম (ṭim)
- → Cantonese: team
- → Catalan: tim
- → Czech: tým
- → Dutch: team
- → Esperanto: teamo
- → Finnish: tiimi
- → German: Team
- → Hausa: tim
- → Hawaiian: kime
- → Hindi: टीम (ṭīm)
- → Italian: team
- → Japanese: チーム (chīmu)
- → Korean: 팀 (tim)
- → Macedonian: тим (tim)
- → Māori: tīma
- → Marathi: टीम (ṭīm)
- → Northern Kurdish: tîm
- → Norwegian Bokmål: team
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: team
- → Pashto: ټيم (ṭim)
- → Persian: تیم (tim)
- → Polish: team
- → Portuguese: time (Brazilian)
- → Romanian: team
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: тим
- Latin script: tim
- → Slovak: tím
- → Swahili: timu
- → Swedish: team
- → Tagalog: tim
- → Thai: ทีม (tiim)
- → Tok Pisin: tim
- → Urdu: ٹِیم (ṭīm)
- → Welsh: tîm
- → West Frisian: team
Translations
group of people
- Albanian: ekip (sq) m
- Apache:
- Western Apache: łį́į́’ na’iłbąąsí
- Arabic: فَرِيق (ar) m (farīq)
- Armenian: թիմ (hy) (tʻim), զինախումբ (hy) (zinaxumb), կոմանդա (hy) (komanda) (colloquial), խումբ (hy) (xumb)
- Asturian: equipu m
- Azerbaijani: komanda (az)
- Basque: talde (eu)
- Belarusian: кама́нда f (kamánda), брыга́да f (bryháda), гру́па f (hrúpa), калекты́ў m (kaljektýw)
- Bengali: টীম (ṭim)
- Bulgarian: отбо́р (bg) m (otbór), брига́да (bg) f (brigáda), еки́п (bg) m (ekíp)
- Burmese: အစု (my) (a.cu.)
- Catalan: equip (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 團隊 / 团队 (tyun4 deoi6-2), 隊伍 / 队伍 (deoi6 ng5), 隊 / 队 (deoi2)
- Mandarin: 團隊 / 团队 (zh) (tuánduì), 隊 / 队 (zh) (duì)
- Comorian:
- Ngazidja Comorian: ekipu class 9/10 (sports)
- Czech: tým (cs) m
- Danish: hold (da) n
- Dutch: ploeg (nl) f, team (nl) n
- Egyptian: (jzwt f)
- Esperanto: teamo
- Estonian: meeskond (et), brigaad (et)
- Faroese: lið n, toymi n
- Finnish: joukkue (fi), miehistö (fi), tiimi (fi), talli (fi), työhye
- French: équipe (fr) f
- Galician: equipo (gl) m, cuadrilla f, roga f
- Georgian: გუნდი (gundi), რაზმი (razmi)
- German: Mannschaft (de) f, Team (de) n
- Greek: ομάδα (el) f (omáda)
- Hebrew: צוות / צֶוֶת m (tsévet), נִבְחֶרֶת f (nivkhéret), קְבוּצָה (he) f (k'vutsá)
- Hindi: टीम (hi) f (ṭīm), दल (hi) m (dal)
- Hungarian: csapat (hu), csoport (hu)
- Icelandic: lið (is) n
- Ido: esquado (io)
- Indonesian: tim (id)
- Irish: foireann (ga) f, meitheal f
- Italian: squadra (it) f, équipe (it) f
- Japanese: チーム (ja) (chīmu), 隊 (ja) (たい, tai)
- Kabuverdianu: ikipa
- Kazakh: команда (komanda)
- Khmer: ក្រុម (km) (krom), កង (km) (kɑɑng)
- Korean: 팀 (ko) (tim), 대(隊) (ko) (dae)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: kom (ku), tîm (ku)
- Kyrgyz: такым (ky) (takım), команда (komanda)
- Lao: ຊຸມ (sum)
- Latin: manipulus m, turma (la) f
- Latvian: komanda f, brigāde f
- Lithuanian: komanda f, brigada f
- Macedonian: тим m (tim), еки́па f (ekípa)
- Malay: pasukan (ms)
- Maltese: tim m
- Māori: tīma, kapa
- Marathi: संघ m (saṅgha), गट m (gaṭ), टीम f (ṭīm)
- Mauritian Creole: lekip
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: баг (mn) (bag)
- Mongolian script: ᠪᠠᠭ (baɣ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lag (no) n, team (no) n
- Nynorsk: lag n, team n
- Occitan: equipa (oc) f
- Oromo: gartuu
- Pashto: ټيم (ps) m (ṭim)
- Persian:
- Dari: گُرُوه (gurūh), تِیم (tīm)
- Iranian Persian: گُروه (goruh), تیم (fa) (tim)
- Polish: zespół (pl) m, ekipa (pl) f, drużyna (pl) f
- Portuguese: equipa (pt) f (Portugal), equipe (pt) f (Brazil), time (pt) m (Brazil)
- Romanian: echipă (ro) f
- Russian: кома́нда (ru) f (kománda) (sports, military), брига́да (ru) f (brigáda), арте́ль (ru) f (artélʹ) (workers), (aviation, nautical, sports) экипа́ж (ru) m (ekipáž), гру́ппа (ru) f (grúppa), коллекти́в (ru) m (kollektív)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ти̑м m, еки́па f
- Latin: tȋm (sh) m, ekípa (sh) f
- Shan: ၸုမ်း (shn) (tsúm)
- Slovak: tím (sk) m
- Slovene: ekipa (sl) f
- Spanish: equipo (es) m, (of workers) cuadrilla (es) f, consorcio (es) m
- Swahili: timu (sw)
- Swedish: lag (sv) n, team (sv) n, stall (sv) n (in racing)
- Tagalog: kupunan, kuponan
- Tajik: гурӯҳ (tg) (gurüh), команда (tg) (komanda)
- Tamil: அணி (ta) (aṇi), கூட்டணி (ta) (kūṭṭaṇi), குழு (ta) (kuḻu)
- Tatar: такым (taqım)
- Telugu: జట్టు (te) (jaṭṭu), బృందం (te) (br̥ndaṁ)
- Thai: ทีม (th) (tiim), เหล่า (th) (lào)
- Tibetan: རུ་ཁག (ru khag)
- Turkish: takım (tr), ekip (tr)
- Turkmen: topar, komanda
- Ukrainian: кома́нда f (kománda), брига́да (uk) f (bryháda), гру́па (uk) f (hrúpa), колекти́в m (kolektýv)
- Urdu: ٹِیم f (ṭīm), دَل (ur) m (dal)
- Uyghur: ئۆمەك (ömek), كوماندا (komanda)
- Uzbek: komanda (uz), jamoa (uz)
- Vietnamese: đội (vi), ban (vi)
- Walloon: coplêye (wa) f (work), ekipe (wa) f (sports)
- Welsh: tîm (cy) m
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Verb
team (third-person singular simple present teams, present participle teaming, simple past and past participle teamed)
- (intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.
- Synonym: team up
They teamed to complete the project.
- (intransitive, by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
2005, Jill Dupleix, Good Cooking: The New Basics, page 32:Rich, creamy avocado is cut back by the citrus sharpness of grapefruit in this Israeli-inspired salad. It's brilliant for a brunchy breakfast, and teams well with grilled salmon, tuna, or mackerel for dinner.
- (transitive) To convey or haul with a team.
to team lumber
- 1857, Henry David Thoreau journal entry for Feb. 4 1857
- the farmer has been all winter teaming wood along the river
- (transitive) To form together into a team.
to team oxen
- (transitive) To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.
Derived terms
Interjection
team
- (video games, colloquial) Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.
Etymology 2
Verb
team
- Misspelling of teem.
Anagrams
- maté, META, meat, mate, Tame, meta, Meta, meta-, AEMT, Atem, -mate, tame, ATEM, Tema
Akan
Verb
team (Twi)
- alternative form of tea mu
References
- LearnAkan (2018–present), “squeal”, in LearnAkanDictionary.com (overall work in English)
Chinese
Etymology
From English team.
Pronunciation
Noun
team
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) a group of people working in cooperation and involved in the same activity (Classifier: 條／条 c)
Classifier
team
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for teams of people.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English team, from Middle English teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Doublet of toom.
Pronunciation
Noun
team n (plural teams, diminutive teampje n)
- team (group of people)
- Synonym: ploeg
Derived terms
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English team.
Pronunciation
Noun
team m (invariable)
- team (group of people)
- Synonyms: squadra, gruppo
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
team
- (Early Middle English) alternative form of tem (“group”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English team.
Noun
team n (definite singular teamet, indefinite plural team, definite plural teama or teamene)
- a team
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “team” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English team.
Noun
team n (definite singular teamet, indefinite plural team, definite plural teama)
- a team
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “team” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“pull, draw”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tēam m (nominative plural tēamas)
- childbirth
- family, offspring
- a team of draught animals
- an Anglo-Saxon legal procedure in a stolen goods suit
Declension
Strong a-stem:
Related terms
Descendants
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English team.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtim/
- Rhymes: -im
- Syllabification: team
Noun
team m inan
- team (well-coordinated group of people working together)
- (sports) team
- Synonym: drużyna
Declension
Further reading
- “team”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[5] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “team”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[6] (in Polish)
Romanian
Etymology 1
Unadapted borrowing from English team.
Noun
team n (uncountable)
- team (sports)
Declension
Etymology 2
Unawareness of the fact that it is a contraction, and thus is spelled together.
Contraction
team
- (eye dialect) misspelling of te-am
Swedish
Etymology
From English team.
Pronunciation
Noun
team n
- a team (at a job, or more generally)
Declension
Synonyms
See also
References
Anagrams
Tyap
Verb
team (team)
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Vietnamese
Etymology
From English team.
Pronunciation
Noun
team
- team (group of people)
- Synonym: đội
West Frisian
Etymology 1
From Old Frisian tām, from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz.
Noun
team c (plural teammen, diminutive teamke)
- bridle
Further reading
- “team (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English team.
Noun
team n (plural teams, diminutive teamke)
- team
- Synonym: ploech
Sirkulaasjefollybal is in fariant op it gewoane follybal, mei 4 spilers yn elts team.- Mini-volleyball is a variation of normal volleyball, with 4 players on each team.
Derived terms
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