noun, verb
noun [C+sing./pl.v.]
1 a number of people or things that are together in the same place or that are connected in some way:
a group of girls / trees / houses * A group of us are going to the theatre this evening. * Students stood around in groups waiting for their results. * a discussion / study / support group * the Germanic group of languages * The proportion of single parent families varies between different income groups. * a group activity (= done by a number of people working together)
seealsoSUBGROUP
HELPNOTE There are many other compounds ending in group. You will find them at their place in the alphabet.
2 (business) a number of companies that are owned by the same person or organization:
a newspaper group * the Burton group * the group sales director
3 (rather old-fashioned) a number of musicians who perform together, especially to play pop music:
She sings in a rock group.
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ (sb/sth) (round / around sb/sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for group is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is group a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, group is tagged as verb.
Does group appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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