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group

noun [C] (SET)
 
 
/ɡruːp/

Definition

A1 a number of people or things that are put together or considered as a unit: I'm meeting a group of friends for dinner tonight. The car was parked near a small group of trees. She showed me another group of pictures, this time of children playing.Groups of peopleGroups and collections of thingsVariety and mixtures
(Definition of group noun (SET) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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