band
/bænd/ noun C2- A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist. · musical band· session band
- A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; an instance of this type.
- A group of people loosely united for a common purpose, such as a band of thieves.
- A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and nations.
Plural bands
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“Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band—a speckled band?”
“Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation.
Your power over our band is now ended, and you will never see us again.”
It was the band!
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