Other forms: groups, grouped, grouping
A group is a number of people or things gathered together. A small group, group work, in groups of four.
In British English it can take a plural verb — the group are meeting — because it is people. A group is also a band: a pop group. In a tournament, the group stage comes before the knockout. As a verb, to group is to arrange in sets: group them by size. Note group therapy, focus group, blood group; and grouping, which is the arrangement rather than the set.
1noungroupA number of people or things gathered together.~98%
“A group of tourists stood in front of the palace taking photos.”
2verbarrangeTo arrange into sets.~2%
“The teacher grouped the children by age for the games.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 23 sentences found in the wild and placed 23 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
group is a gathered set.
Italian gruppo meant a cluster or knot, and it came into English through French as a term in painting for figures arranged together. The word was a technical art term before it was ordinary English.
French
groupe
English, today
group
Built from
Borrowed from French groupe. From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”). Displaced native Old English hād (“tribe, group”). In the "group theory" sense, calque#Verb from French groupe, a term coined by the young French mathematician Évariste Galois in 1830.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA