Entry Word: group

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a number of things considered as a unit <car buffs stood around admiring a group of classic cars in the parking lot>

Synonyms array, assemblage, bank, batch, battery, block, bunch, clump, cluster, collection, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, package, parcel, passel, set, suite

Related Words accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomeration; agglomeration, assortment, hodgepodge, jumble, miscellany, mixture, odds and ends, sundries, variety; series, suit

Phrases the whole kit and caboodle

Near Antonyms entity, item, single, unit

2 a usually small number of persons considered as a unit <the next group of guests were being seated for dinner>

Synonyms array, batch, battery, body, bunch, cluster, crop, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, parcel, party, passel

Related Words assembly, congregation, gathering, organization; circle, clan, clique, coterie, fellowship, gang, ring, set; faction, guild (also gild), order, school, sect; brigade, crew, outfit, platoon, posse; alliance, bloc, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, league, union; bevy, covey

Phrases the whole kit and caboodle

Near Antonyms individual, single

3 one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic <youʼll find both good and bad in every ethnic group> — see class 2