group

/ɡruːp/

US pronunciation

American sound/ɡruːp/

group

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Long vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> group

Myanmar meaning

(n) အုပ်စု။ (vt,vi) အုပ်စုဖွဲ့သည်။

Full entry

group / gru:p / n [CGp]

၁။ အစုအဝေး။ အုပ်စု။ a group of girls/ trees/ houses ❍ A group of us are going to the cinema this evening. ❍ people standing about in groups ❍ an age group (ie people of the same age or similar age) ❍ Our discussion group is/ are meeting this week. ❍ a drama group (ie a small club for acting) ❍ the Germanic group of languages ❍ a group activity (ie done by people as a group). See also BLOOD GROUP
၂။ အစုစပ်ကုမ္ပဏီများ။ a newspaper group ❍ the Burton Group ❍ the group sales director.
၃။ တေးဂီတအဖွဲ့။ play in/ form a (pop) group.
v ~ (sb/ sth) (round/ around sb/ sth); ~ (sb/ sth) (together) စုဝေးသည်။ အဖွဲ့ ဖွဲ့သည်။ The police grouped round the demonstrators. ဆန္ဒပြသူများကို ရဲက ဝိုင်းသည်။ ❍ Group together in fours! ❍ The teachers grouped the pupils together.
❏ group captain n ဗြိတိသျှလေတပ်တွင် ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး အဆင့် အရာရှိ။
❏ groupie /'gru:pi / n (infml ) ရော့ခ်အဆိုတော် စသော ရေပန်းစားသူနောက် တကောက်ကောက် လိုက်နေသော မိန်းကလေး (သို့) လူငယ်။
❏ grouping n အအုပ်အသင်းဖွဲ့မှု။ various anti-leadership groupings within the party.
❏ group practice n ဆေးခန်းတစ်ခုတည်း ထိုင်သော ဆရာဝန်အုပ်စု။
❏ group therapy n [U] ဝေဒနာရှင်အချင်းချင်း စုဝေး ဆွေးနွေးခြင်းဖြင့် ကုသနည်း။

More examples

[group of] : There was a group of girls following him.
A group of her friends were waiting for her inside.
A group of words that make up a phrase
The attack was carried out by a rebel group.
[member of a group] : She was a member of a right-wing political group.
[the leader of a group] : He became the leader of a paramilitary group.
[join a group] : Why don’t you join the local drama group?
[form a group] : He eventually formed a religious group, the Church of Nagriamel.
He didn’t join in any of the group activities.
Being involved in a group decision can increase an individual’s motivation.
People from different ethnic and minority groups
Firms should employ more people in the over-55 age group.
[group of] : There are worries about the safety of this group of chemicals.
[belong to a group] : Killer whales belong to the group known as ‘toothed whales’.
We’ll be put in the novice group.
All the test subjects in Group B were given the new drug.
Students can work individually, in pairs, or in groups.
[groups of three/four/ten etc] : Can you get yourselves into groups of four, please?
[split/divide someone into groups] : The boys were split into four groups.
Members of a pop group
An all-female group
The company is part of the Target group.
The Mirror Group already owned a satellite TV channel.

Synonyms

collection, cluster, set, assembly, assemblage, accumulation, aggregation, alliance, amalgamation, arrange, assemble, associate, association, assort, assortment, band, band together, batch, battery, bevy, body, bracket, bring together, bunch, bunch up, bundle, cartel, categorize, category, chain, circle, class, classify, clique, clot, club, clump, clutch, collect, collective, combination, combine, company, confederacy, confederation, conglomerate, congregate, congregation, consort, consortium, convene, corporate, corral, coterie, covey, crew, crowd, dispose, duo, ensemble, faction, federation, file, formation, gang, gang around, gang up, gather, gathering, get together, grade, grouper, grouping, hang out, harmonize, huddle, knot, league, link, lot, make the scene, marshal, meet, mess, musical group, octet, orchestra, order, organization, organize, pack, parcel, party, passel, pigeonhole, platoon, poke, pool, posse, punch, put together, quartet, quintet, range, rank, round up, scare up, septet, sextet, shooting match, social, societal, society, sort, suite, syndicate, systematize, tribal, trio, troop, troupe, trust, unit

Antonyms

disagree, disarrange, disconnect, disorder, disorganize, disperse, divide, individual, jumble, mix up, one, scatter, separate, soloist, spread, whole