Search results
- 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"
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
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.
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.
COTERIE meaning: 1. a small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join…. Learn more.
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 /ˈkəʊtərɪ/ n. a small exclusive group of friends or people with common interests; clique. Etymology: 18th Century: from French, from Old French: association of tenants, from cotier (unattested) cottager, from Medieval Latin cotārius cotter ²; see cot ².
A complete guide to the word "COTERIE": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.