grouping

noun

group·​ing ˈgrü-piŋ How to pronounce grouping (audio)
1
: the act or process of combining in groups
2
: a set of objects combined in a group
a furniture grouping

Examples of grouping in a Sentence

They arranged the furniture in a grouping around the fireplace. the grouping of English with other Germanic languages
Recent Examples on the Web When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings. Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2024 Last week, school board members pushed back on that grouping, asking how the school district came to those conclusions. Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2024 That grouping — which began with 500 signatures and soon after publishing grew to 1,000 — included Debra Messing, Tovah Feldshuh, Eli Roth, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Lawrence Bender, Amy Pascal, Hawk Koch, Sherry Lansing, and more. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024 Reductions at those 25 annual conferences were often staff or districts — a local grouping of churches within an annual conference — often meaning a reduction in the number of district superintendent staff positions. Liam Adams, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024 But as the season progressed and Maurice tinkered with his forward lines — sometimes out of necessity due to injuries, sometimes out of curiosity to see what groupings might work — Rodrigues became one of the primary forwards to bounce around. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2024 One of the most magical groupings in the show is a wall-size vitrine that features delicate suprematist marionettes by Aleksandra Exster, futurist flower sculptures by Giacomo Balla and a peerless dada painting by Sonia Delaunay. Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024 The two nations are expected to tighten cooperation between their military command structures, and their defense industries, while regional groupings such as the U.S., Australia and the U.K. are considering sharing new defense technologies with Japan. Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024 Today, linguists are in broad agreement on the basics of Indo-European language groupings and how they are related to one another. Kurt Kleiner, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1704, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of grouping was in 1704

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“Grouping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grouping. Accessed 2 May. 2024.

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