English > grouping: 3 senses > noun 1, Tops| Meaning | Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
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| Synonym | group |
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| Instances | Great Lakes | A group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America |
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| Narrower | actinoid, actinide, actinon | Any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 |
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| arrangement | An orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit |
| association | (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species |
| biological group | A group of plants or animals |
| circuit | (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally / originally judges traveled and held court in different locations) |
| citizenry, people | The body of citizens of a state or country |
| collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage | Several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
| community, biotic community | (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other |
| edition | All of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time |
| electron shell | A grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom |
| ethnic group, ethnos | people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture |
| halogen | Any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions |
| kingdom | A basic group of natural objects |
| multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed | The common people generally |
| people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
| population | A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area |
| race | People who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock |
| rare earth, rare-earth element, lanthanoid, lanthanide, lanthanon | Any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) |
| sainthood | saints collectively |
| series | A group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection |
| social group | People sharing some social relation |
| straggle | A wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons) |
| subgroup | A distinct and often subordinate group within a group |
| swarm, cloud | A group of many things in the air or on the ground |
| system, scheme | A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole |
| varna | (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) |
| world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man | All of the living human inhabitants of the earth |
| Broader | abstraction, abstract entity | A general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples |
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| Spanish | agrupación, colectivo, grupo |
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| Catalan | agrupació, col·lectiu, grup |
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