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Group in Webster's 1913 dictionary

The 1913 record labels group as noun. Its source-bounded etymology and selected historical definition appear below.

WEBSTER 1913noun
Group

[F groupe, It. gruppo, groppo, cluster, bunch, packet, group; of G. origin: cf. G. kropf craw, crop, tumor, bunch. See Crop, n.]

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Cross-verified 1913 record
Headwordgroup
Part of speechnoun
Historical etymology[F groupe, It. gruppo, groppo, cluster, bunch, packet, group; of G. origin: cf. G. kropf craw, crop, tumor, bunch. See Crop, n.]
Selected historical definitionA cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
Signed record IDwebster1913-group-noun-224743fc7958
Source locatorCIDE.G, paragraph 6236; Gutenberg eBook 663
Edition-scoped answerNot earliest-attestation proofNot modern consensus
Independent historical textProject Gutenberg section 663Signed structural record sourceGNU GCIDE 0.54 archive
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In Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), "group" is labeled noun. Its etymology is recorded as: "[F groupe, It. gruppo, groppo, cluster, bunch, packet, group; of G. origin: cf. G. kropf craw, crop, tumor, bunch. See Crop, n.]" The selected historical definition says: "A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles."

Project Gutenberg Webster 1913 plus signed GNU GCIDE 0.54 Exact cross-verified historical record reviewed 2026-09-05

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