GROUP
What does "GROUP" mean?
A number of people or things gathered, classified, or considered together.
Meanings
- A set of people or things regarded as a unit. A small group of hikers waited at the trailhead.
- To place or come together in a set. She grouped the photos by the year they were taken.
- A musical ensemble or band. The group released its first album in the spring.
- In mathematics, a set with an operation satisfying closure, associativity, identity, and inverses. The integers under addition form a group. technical
Did you know?
- The word 'group' anchors a whole branch of math: group theory, developed from Evariste Galois's work around 1832, proves no general formula can solve every fifth-degree equation by radicals.
Word origin
From French 'groupe', borrowed from Italian 'gruppo' meaning a cluster or knot, likely of Germanic origin related to a rounded mass.
Remember it
GROUP keeps its O and U paired up - even the letters travel together.
A little poem
Apart, just a name-
but gathered around one fire,
the strangers warm up.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the lonely number love group theory? It finally found a set where it belonged.
What it teaches
A group is more than its members: the bond between them is the thing you actually join.
Quick facts
What does GROUP mean?
A number of people or things gathered, classified, or considered together.
Is GROUP a valid word?
Yes — GROUP is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GROUP?
GROUP has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does GROUP come from?
From French 'groupe', borrowed from Italian 'gruppo' meaning a cluster or knot, likely of Germanic origin related to a rounded mass.
What can GROUP teach us?
A group is more than its members: the bond between them is the thing you actually join.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.