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coterie
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French coterie.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??t??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ko?t??i/, /?ko?t???i/, [?ko????i], [?ko?????i]
Noun
coterie (plural coteries)
- A circle of people who associate with one another for a common purpose.
- Synonym: clique
- A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “coterie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- “coterie”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French coterie, from Medieval Latin coteria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ko?.t??ri/
- Hyphenation: co?te?rie
- Rhymes: -i
Noun
coterie f (plural coteries or coterieën, diminutive coterietje n)
- coterie, clique (exclusive circle of associates)
Related terms
- kot
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin coteria, from Old English cot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.t?i/
- Rhymes: -i
Noun
coterie f (plural coteries)
- (historical) feudal community of peasants
- (figuratively, also derogatory) coterie, clique, cabal (small, exclusive group of individuals advancing shared interests)
Descendants
- ? Dutch: coterie
- ? English: coterie
- ? German: Koterie
Further reading
- “coterie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- coterie on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Romanian
Etymology
From French coterie.
Noun
coterie f (plural coterii)
- coterie
Declension
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squad
English
Etymology 1
From French escouade, from Italian squadra (“square”) (whence also French escadre).
Alternative forms
- escouade (archaic)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?skw?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?skw?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
squad (plural squads)
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- 1912, in The New England magazine, volume 47:
- A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.
- 1912, in The New England magazine, volume 47:
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- 1970, TV Guide:
- At one point, the 400-ton Calypso was brought to a standstill by a squad of squid which clogged the engines and caused a power failure. Other, highlights included an attack by predatory blue sharks, […]
- 2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, Let's Go Publications:
- The Sea Life Centre retains a squad of squid and such.
- 2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 546:
- There's several new symbols next to the doorway symbol. Beso pushed all six of them without waiting to see what they brought; like a herd of charging rhinos or rampaging squad of squid. Next best thing though.
- 2017, Kristen Joy Wilks, Athens Ambuscade, Pelican Ventures Book Group (?ISBN)
- I pulled in as deep a breath as my gag allowed and began relaxing my body. I used a little trick I'd learned in college. I imagined that a friendly squad of squid were massaging every muscle on the bottoms of my feet; the tension began to drain.
- 1970, TV Guide:
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
Derived terms
- firing squad
- flying squad
- God squad
Related terms
- squadron
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Verb
squad (third-person singular simple present squads, present participle squadding, simple past and past participle squadded)
- (intransitive) To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.
- We squad on the fifth of the month.
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Compare squick (“disgust”), squalid (“dirty”) with similar initial sounds.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?skwæd/
Noun
squad
- (Britain, dialect) Sloppy mud. [from the mid-17th c.]
- 1875 March 13, Leicester Chronicle, quoted in the EDD:
- The lass ran all among the muck and squad.
- 1895, Alfred Tennyson, The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson: Poet-laureate, page 791:
- An' she did n't not solidly mean I wur / gawin' that waäy to the bad,
- Fur the gell was as howry a trollope as / iver traäpes'd i' the squad.
- 1875 March 13, Leicester Chronicle, quoted in the EDD:
Further reading
- Robert Eden George Cole, A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire (1886), page 140
Anagrams
- quads
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?kwad/, [es?kwað?]
Noun
squad m (plural squads or squad)
- squad
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