Group
1. An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation. Usage: A group of dinner guests OR A group of buildings near the road.
2. Two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture.
3. A number of individuals or things considered together because of similarities. Usage : A small group of supporters across the country.
4. Linguistics A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family.
5.
a. A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.
b. A unit of two or more squadrons in the U.S. Air Force, smaller than a wing.
6. A class or collection of related objects or entities, as:
a. Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.
b. A column in the periodic table of the elements.
c. A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.
7. Mathematics A set with a binary associative operation such that the operation admits an identity element and each element of the set has an inverse element for the operation.
Chunk
1. A thick mass or piece. Usage : There is a big chunk of ice lying ahead of us.
2. Informal A substantial amount. Usage: John won quite a chunk of money.
3. A strong stocky horse.
Congregation
1. a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
2. an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
Usage : A congregation of children pleaded for the maestro’s autograph.
A great congregation of birds just flew past over.
Bevy
1. A group of animals or birds, especially larks or quail.
2. A group or an assemblage.
Usage : A bevy of beauties.
John was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire.
A bevy of young beach boys swarmed around John.
Cluster
1. a grouping of a number of similar things.
2. come together as in a cluster or flock.
Usage : “a bunch of trees”; “a cluster of admirers”
Meanwhile I am approaching a decorative old Surrey town, little more than a cluster of ripe old inns, to one of which I have much pleasure in inviting the reader to dinner.
Clump
1. A clustered mass; a lump. Usage : clumps of soil.
2. A thick grouping, as of trees or bushes.
3. A heavy dull sound; a thud.
Usage : There was a clump of trees bordering the side of the road.
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Clique
A small exclusive group of friends or associates.
Usage : A clique of sleek men in the city got between Mary and John just at that precise amount.
Coterie
A small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently.
Usage : The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
Contingent
1. An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.
2. A share or quota, as of troops, contributed to a general effort.
3. A representative group forming part of an assemblage.
Usage : The peacekeeping force includes one British contingent.
The military contingent from India sent to defend the war-ridden country routed the rebels.
Each nation sends a contingent of athletes to the Olympics.
Covey
1. A family or small flock of birds, especially partridge or quail.
2. A small group, as of persons.
Usage : On our nature walk across the woods, we spotted quite a number of covey of birds.
Multitude
1. The condition or quality of being numerous.
2. A very great number.
3. The masses; the populace.
Usage : The senator is very perturbed because of the concerns of the multitude.
Constellate
To form or cause to form a group or cluster.
Usage : The poets constellate in this town every summer
It was beautiful to see the hills constellated with lights.
Swad
1. A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
2. A clown; a country bumpkin.
3. A lump of mass; also, a crowd.
Usage : A thick swad of plants.
Agglomeration
1. The act or process of gathering into a mass.
2. A confused or jumbled mass.
Usage : To avoid the problems of large urban agglomerations, the state decentralized the university system.
The album is a bizarre agglomeration of styles.
In reality, it was an infinite agglomeration of coloured plants.