grouping

noun

group·​ing ˈgrü-piŋ 

1

: the act or process of combining in groups

2

: a set of objects combined in a group

a furniture grouping

Synonyms

• array
• assemblage
• band
• bank
• batch
• battery
• block
• bunch
• clot
• clump
• cluster
• clutch
• collection
• constellation
• group
• huddle
• knot
• lot
• muster
• package
• parcel
• passel
• set
• suite

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

The final grouping is set to include the Strawberry Shortcake, Sherlock Hound, Royal Knight, Macaron, and Ice King masks. —Lauren Huff, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024

Even as the grouping attracts growing interest as a political and economic counterweight to the West, tensions are simmering over its direction and influence. —Henry Meyer, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024

This grouping also features No More Hell to Pay, Fallen, Murder By Pride, and God Damn Evil. —Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024

Among these hundreds of millions of tiny specks of light lurk newborn stars, extremely cold brown dwarfs that only glow at infrared wavelengths, free-floating planets, and globular clusters—groupings containing millions of the Milky Way’s oldest stars in existence. —Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1704, in the meaning defined at sense 1