group
/ɡɹup/ noun A1- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another. · 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.
- A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together. · Did you see the new jazz group?
- 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. · Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
- A subset of a culture or of a society.
- An air force formation.
Plural groups
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As we moved across it in the direction of the window, Holmes fell back until he and I were the last of the group.
Behind him stood a group of people who seemed to be intensely amused by the situation, but a chill came over me as I looked at them.
Danglars and Caderousse set off upon their errand at full speed; but ere they had gone many steps they perceived a group advancing towards them, composed of the betrothed pair, a party of young girls in attendance on the bride, by whose side walked Dantès’ father; the whole brought up by Fernand, whose lips wore their usual sinister smile.
And then the girls were around them and Anne was the center of a laughing, congratulating group.
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