groupings

noun

plural of grouping
1
as in clusters
a number of things considered as a unit the standard grouping for an average living room: sofa, matching wing chairs, and the inevitable coffee table

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2
as in groups
a usually small number of persons considered as a unit the next grouping of tourists can start the house tour as soon as the last bunch leaves

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Recent Examples of groupings So on Friday, at UCLA’s second fall practice, the Bruins shifted around personnel and paired various offensive groupings. — Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 8 Aug. 2026 Scale and proportion also play a major role in helping groupings look balanced. — Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2026 When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings. — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026 These groupings leave out some players under contract in Sean Kuraly, Alex Steeves and Mikey Eyssimont. — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 7 July 2026 The Consumer Reports investigation found even wider price discrepancies than CBS LA's investigation, with the median difference between the lowest and highest price groupings landing at about 50%. — Kristine Lazar, CBS News, 16 June 2026 To prevent mealybug infestations, allow airflow between plant groupings and keep infected plants away from healthy ones. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026 That spirit is exemplified by Ford, a gregarious hostess who moves through the various groupings of women in a diaphanous full-length blue dress, introducing Godfred to a group of attendees and hugging both first-timers and her OGs enthusiastically. — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026 Her best advice is to look for larger groupings that create instant collections. — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 2 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for groupings
  1. clusters
  2. groups
  3. batches
  4. bands
  5. collections
  6. arrays
  7. assemblages
  8. constellations
Noun
  • The group’s survey efforts are mostly organized into 17 clusters, each containing 12 to 16 individual collection sites spread out in a grid of roughly 14 square miles.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Multiple outbreaks, only one tied to lettuce Not all of these clusters have been linked to the same source, however.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of clusters
Noun
  • Brazilians lead the way in seven different age groups, from Philippe Coutinho at 16 all the way to Neymar aged 31.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • These groups that are coming here are coming for one reason, and that is to provoke a reaction and generate attention.
    — Heath Kalb, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of groups
Noun
  • Older age statements, barrel-strength bottlings, non-chill filtration, single barrels, micro-batches and distinctive packaging led to sustained success in export markets like Japan and Europe.
    — Chris Perugini, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Election workers moved additional batches to a second high-speed scanner, but election officials say that system couldn't accept two batches with identical batch names.
    — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of batches
Noun
  • Both bands share a genre-bending approach, improvising to create performances that — in theory, at least — are singular.
    — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • These bands help biologists track and monitor the birds over time.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of bands
Noun
  • The 330-minute work delves into the life of the writer-poet through archives, private collections, rediscovered documents and irreverent narration.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • On social media, product reviews, along with videos of proud squishy owners ranking their collections and parents poking fun at their kids’ obsessions, have generated millions of views.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of collections
Noun
  • ThayerMahan’s systems use passive acoustic arrays to listen for underwater contacts rather than relying on the target to announce its presence.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Radio interferometers are arrays of individual dishes that work together as a team, like one large telescope with lots of holes in it.
    — Olivia Harper Wilkins, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrays
Noun
  • Often these assemblages of items are tied together in a bundle or bag and may be referred to as hands, mojos, or gris-gris.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Six years later, MOCA commissioned Saar to create a series of assemblages and installations to accompany 10 performances of Ellen Sebastian’s theatrical production Sanctified.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of assemblages
Noun
  • Suddenly, constellations will sharpen into view, and meteors appear far more frequently.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026
  • What to read next SpaceX's Starship megarocket is likely to play a key role in the deployment of data center constellations.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of constellations

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“Groupings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groupings. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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