group /ɡɹuːp/noun 16verb 3forms 3 noun16 •two or more people or things that are close together or have something in commonthere is a group of houses behind the hill; he left town to join a Communist groupA group of people is/are gathering in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals. •A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.Did you see the new jazz group? •A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other. •A column in the periodic table of chemical elements. •A functional group.Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group. •A subset of a culture or of a society. •A collection of formations or rock strata. •A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals. •A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes. •A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.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 •A commercial organization. •Group therapy. •A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem. — 1977 •An air force formation. •An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter. •(no longer used) An effective divisor on a curve. verb3 •To put together to form a group. •To come together to form a group.For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal. — 2021 •To eliminate in the group stage of a competition.Clubs like Real Sociedad are getting grouped in the Europa League. Even clubs like Atletico Madrid and Villareal are finding it hard to progress to the R16 in the UCL. — 2022 formsgrouped · grouping · groups