group – English noun declension

English noun forms of group

Noun: group
Singulargroup
Pluralgroups

Sample Sentences

  • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting. [2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:]
  • there is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist group
  • A group of people is/are gathering in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
  • Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem. [1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192:]
  • In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z). [1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112:]
  • 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,
  • In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).
  • Did you see the new jazz group?
  • Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
  • It is the third of eight matches that Spain will play in Group I, but the coach Vicente del Bosque has described it as being more akin to the first leg of a cup semi-final. [2012 October 15, Sid Lowe, “Spain aim to take 'very big step' towards 2014 World Cup against France”, in The Guardian:]
  • Aside from occasional moments of belligerence, he was a pretty affable guy. I rather liked him and, I guess, wanted him to like me. But his affability also included the odd "faggot" joke, which left me dubious over talking with him about being gay, even in "group." [1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 194:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder.
4. Frankish *kruppbor.
5. Vulgar Latin *cruppus
6. Italian gruppobor.
7. French groupebor.
8. ▲
9. Italian gruppobor.
10. English group
11. From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”).
12. In the "group theory" sense, calqued from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830.
13. Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup. Compare Persian گروه. See: French Nouns 'groupe', Italian Nouns 'gruppo', French Nouns 'groupe', German Nouns 'Kropf', Old English Nouns 'cropp', English Nouns 'crop', Dutch Nouns 'krop'.

Verbs referencing "group"

Latin Nouns grupus.