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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A circle of people who associate with one another.
  2. n. An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose; a clique.
  3. n. A communal burrow of prairie dogs.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

Etymologies

  1. French, from Old French, peasant association, from cotier, cottager, from *cote, cottage, possibly of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby As far as I can see, o
    duffy & friend, we're a trio. Mar 16, 2010

  • balduffington Would we three make up a coterie?
    Asks she to he (and me). Mar 16, 2010

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