groups
Sets of people
Groups are collections of people or things considered together.
People form groups around shared interests, identities, or purposes: a support group, a focus group, an ethnic group.
In music, a group is a band: a rock group.
The verb means to arrange into categories or clusters: Students grouped themselves by major.
To group something with another is to classify them together.
Grazing animals together
- flockAnimals gathered together
- swarmMass of moving insects
- packGroup or compress
- troopMobile group, organized
gaggle · pride · pod · school · colony · cluster · bunch · bevy
State of belonging
- allianceFormal union of parties
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- associationGroup with shared aim
- partnershipShared business arrangement
federation · confederation · syndicate · guild · fraternity · sorority · league · union
Collective of connected people
- neighborhoodResidential area nearby
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
- communeShared-living community
fellowship · kinship · clique · circle · cohort · peer · demographic · subculture
National legislative assembly
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
- senateLegislative governing body
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- panelDistinct flat section
delegation · quorum · plenary · session · caucus · roundtable · task force · subcommittee
Circular bands worn
- fieldsExpanses for cultivation
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- permutationArrangement in specific order
- cyclicRepeating in sequence
finite · isomorphism · order · generator · identity · inverse · closure · operation
Being made part
- multiculturalismCoexistence of diverse traditions
- pluralismCoexistence of differing views
- representationDepiction or likeness
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
heterogeneity · intersectionality · identity · affinity · minority · marginalized · underrepresented · equity
herd
Grazing animals together
troop · gaggle · pride · pod · school · colony · cluster · bunch · bevy · murder
membership
State of belonging
- allianceFormal union of parties
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- associationGroup with shared aim
partnership · federation · confederation · syndicate · guild · fraternity · sorority · league · union · bloc
community
Collective of connected people
- neighborhoodResidential area nearby
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
commune · fellowship · kinship · clique · circle · cohort · peer · demographic · subculture · generation
parliament
National legislative assembly
- legislatureLawmaking governmental branch
- senateLegislative governing body
- committeeAppointed group for duties
panel · delegation · quorum · plenary · session · caucus · roundtable · task force · subcommittee · council
rings
Circular bands worn
- fieldsExpanses for cultivation
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- permutationArrangement in specific order
cyclic · finite · isomorphism · order · generator · identity · inverse · closure · operation · set
inclusion
Being made part
- multiculturalismCoexistence of diverse traditions
- pluralismCoexistence of differing views
- representationDepiction or likeness
demographics · heterogeneity · intersectionality · identity · affinity · minority · marginalized · underrepresented · equity · protected
- categoriestypes, category, kinds, class, classes
- Facebooklike, comment, share, post, friend
- groupingscategories, classes, divisions, clusters, sections
- organizationsorganization, organizations, company, companies, club
- photo sharingphotos, photo post, albums, sharing, photo sharing
- eventgoerspatrons, visitors, crowds, regulars, spectators
groupsindividuals
Separate, distinct people
individual · person · singleton · loner · one
- group chatShared messaging conversation
- group photoPicture of multiple people
- control groupsUnaltered experimental baselines
- working groupsTeams formed for projects
- group hugMulti-person simultaneous embrace
- splinter groupBreakaway subset of organization
group, grouping, grouped, regroup, groupings, subgroup, subgroups, groupie, grouper