Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A set or circle of persons who are in the habit of meeting for social, scientific, or literary intercourse, or other purposes; especially, a clique.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
circle of people whoassociate with one another. - noun An
exclusive group of people, who associate closely for acommon purpose ; aclique . - noun A
communal burrow ofprairie dogs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I think Bush's coterie is wiping its ass with the Star Spangled Banner ....
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The record label coterie at least had good reason for putting up a fight to the end.
U.S. Faces Of The Week: May 1-5 Forbes.com staff 2006
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The record label coterie at least had good reason for putting up a fight to the end.
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Our little coterie is the object of great envy; we live just as we like, without thinking of other people, which I am not sure here is prudent, but it is pleasant, which is a better thing.
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Fact is there are people in the Lib Dems who would give many Tories a run for their right wing laissez faire money and Clegg and his coterie are a case in point.
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This guy and his coterie are a bunch of lunatics, and we cannot just stand by and wring our hands because we think we're too high-minded to get down in the dirt with these scumbags.
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Our president and his coterie are our protectors, as well as defenders of freedom and democracy.
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Our president and his coterie are our protectors, as well as defenders of freedom and democracy.
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Bi-coastal, Ivy-League trained elites - that is, politicos like Barak Obama - wield great power in American society, but his coterie is a vast minority of the population, and the alliance between elites and non-elites in America is usually tenuous and temporary (not all elites are leftist, of course).
Andrew Sandlin.net 2008
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Or perhaps the 'loaded language' of which Malkin not alas the wonderful Michelle Malkin complains, just after describing the traditionalist bishops as a 'coterie'.
balduffington commented on the word coterie
Would we three make up a coterie?
Asks she to he (and me).
March 16, 2010
bilby commented on the word coterie
As far as I can see, o
duffy & friend, we're a trio.
March 16, 2010