group of musicians
1 [C+sing./pl.v.] a small group of musicians who play popular music together, often with a singer or singers:
a rock / jazz band * She's a singer with a band.
2 [C+sing./pl.v.] a group of musicians who play BRASS and PERCUSSION instruments:
a military band
seealsoBRASSBAND, MARCHINGBAND, ONE-MANBAND
group of people
3 [C+sing./pl.v.] a group of people who do sth together or who have the same ideas:
a band of outlaws * He persuaded a small band of volunteers to help.
strip of material / colour
4 [C] a thin flat strip or circle of any material that is put around things, for example to hold them together or to strengthen them:
She always ties her hair back in a band. * All babies in the hospital have name bands on their wrists. * She wore a simple band of gold on her finger.
seealsoARMBAND, HAIRBAND, HATBAND, RUBBERBAND, SWEATBAND, WAISTBAND
5 [C] a strip of colour or material on sth that is different from what is around it:
a white plate with a blue band around the edge
of radio waves
6 (also waveband) [C] a range of radio waves:
Short-wave radio uses the 20-50 metre band.
range
7 [C] a range of numbers, ages, prices, etc. within which people or things are counted or measured:
the 25-35 age band * tax bands
verb [VN] [usuallypassive]
with colour / material
1 to put a band of a different colour or material around sth:
[VN-ADJ] Many insects are banded black and yellow. [also VN]
put into range
2 (BrE) to be organized into bands of price, income, etc:
Tax is banded according to income.
PHRASALVERBS
band together to form a group in order to achieve sth:
Local people banded together to fight the drug dealers.
