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- Dictionarycoterie/ˈkəʊt(ə)ri/
noun
- 1. a small group of people with shared interests or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people: "a coterie of friends and advisers"
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COTERIE definition: 1. a small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join…. Learn more.
: an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose. a coterie of artists. a coterie of astronomers. Did you know? A coterie today is, in essence, a clique —that is, a tight-knit group sharing interests in common. Historically, however, coteries hung around agricultural fields, not garden parties.
Coterie definition: a group of people who associate closely.. See examples of COTERIE used in a sentence.
COTERIE meaning: 1. a small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join…. Learn more.
Have you noticed how so many of the best TV shows concentrate on a group of friends who seem to mesh together perfectly, to the exclusion of all others? This, then, is a coterie, an exclusive group with common interests.
noun. a close circle of friends who share a common interest or background; clique.
a circle of persons associated together and separated from outsiders; an association for political or social purposes; a number of people meeting familiarly, usually for social or literary reasons, 1738. See also clique, company, set. Examples: coterie of orchids, 1849; of revolutionaries, 1764. Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms.
noun. /ˈkəʊtəri/ [countable + singular or plural verb] (formal, often disapproving) a small group of people who have the same interests and do things together but do not like to include others. his little coterie of friends and advisers. a literary coterie. He surrounded himself with an elite coterie of political advisors.
Coterie Definition. A close circle of friends who share a common interest or background; clique. A small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently. An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose; a clique.
coterie in American English. (ˈkoutəri) noun. 1. a group of people who associate closely. 2. an exclusive group; clique. 3. a group of prairie dogs occupying a communal burrow.
