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- arrangement
an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit - straggle
a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons) - array
an orderly arrangement - categorization, categorisation, classification
a group of people or things arranged by class or category - duality, dichotomy
being twofold - trichotomy
being threefold - clone, clon
a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction - kingdom
a basic group of natural objects - kingdom
the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped - subkingdom
(biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom - mineral kingdom
all inorganic objects - biological group
a group of plants or animals - genotype
a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution - biotype
organisms sharing a specified genotype or the genotype (or peculiarities) so shared - community, biotic community
(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other - biome
a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate - people
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively - peoples
the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group - age group, age bracket, cohort
a group of people having approximately the same age - ancients
people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) - aged, elderly
people who are old collectively - young, youth
young people collectively - baffled
people who are frustrated and perplexed - blind
people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group - blood
people viewed as members of a group - brave
people who are brave - timid, cautious
people who are fearful and cautious - business people, businesspeople
people who transact business (especially business executives) - country people, countryfolk
people raised in or living in a rural environment - country people, countryfolk
people living in the same country - damned
people who are condemned to eternal punishment - dead
people who are no longer living - living
people who are still living - deaf
people who have severe hearing impairments - defeated, discomfited
people who are defeated - disabled, handicapped
people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped - the halt
(archaic) lame persons collectively - doomed, lost
people who are destined to die soon - enemy
any hostile group of people - episcopate, episcopacy
the collective body of bishops - estivation, aestivation
(botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens - folk, folks, common people
people in general (often used in the plural) - gentlefolk
people of good family and breeding and high social status - grass roots
the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) - free, free people
people who are free - home folk
folks from your own home town - homebound
people who are confined to their homes - homeless
poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in - initiate, enlightened
people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity - uninitiate
people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity - mentally retarded, retarded, developmentally challenged
people collectively who are mentally retarded - network army
a group of like-minded people united by the internet - nationality
people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation - peanut gallery
(figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance) - pocket
a small isolated group of people - retreated
people who have retreated - sick
people who are sick - slain
people who have been slain (as in battle) - tradespeople
people engaged in trade - wounded, maimed
people who are wounded - social group
people sharing some social relation - accumulation, collection, aggregation, assemblage
several things grouped together or considered as a whole - armamentarium
the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine - art collection
a collection of art works - backlog
an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services) - battery
a collection of related things intended for use together - block
a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit - book, rule book
a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made - book
a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game - bottle collection
a collection of bottles - lot, bunch, caboodle
any collection in its entirety - coin collection
a collection of coins - collage
any collection of diverse things - content
everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something - ensemble, tout ensemble
an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole - corpus
a collection of writings - crop
a collection of people or things appearing together - tenantry
tenants of an estate considered as a group - loan collection
a number of pictures loaned by their owners for exhibition - findings
a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes - flagging
flagstones collectively - flinders
bits and splinters and fragments - pack
a complete collection of similar things - disk pack, disc pack
(computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device - deck, pack of cards, deck of cards
a pack of 52 playing cards - deal, hand
the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time - long suit
in a hand, the suit having the most cards - bridge hand
the cards held in a game of bridge - chicane
a bridge hand that is void of trumps - strong suit
a long suit including high cards - poker hand
the 5 cards held in a game of poker - royal flush
a poker hand with the ace, king, queen, jack, and 10 all in the same suit - straight flush
a poker hand with consecutive cards in the same suit - full house
a poker hand with 3 of a kind and a pair - flush
a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit - straight
a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) - pair
a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value - herbarium
a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study - stamp collection
a collection of stamps - statuary
statues collectively - Elgin Marbles
a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures and fragments of architecture created by Phidias - summation, sum, sum total
the final aggregate - agglomeration
a jumbled collection or mass - edition
all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time - electron shell
a grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom - gimmickry
a collection of gimmicks - clump, bunch, cluster, clustering
a grouping of a number of similar things - knot
a tight cluster of people or things - nuclear club
the nations possessing nuclear weapons - swad
a bunch - tuft, tussock
a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass - wisp
a small tuft or lock - ball, clump, clod, glob, lump, chunk
a compact mass - gob
a lump of slimy stuff - clew
a ball of yarn or cord or thread - mound, pile, heap, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus
a collection of objects laid on top of each other - compost heap, compost pile
a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost - mass
an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people) - dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill
a heap of dung or refuse - logjam
an immovable mass of logs blocking a river - shock
a bushy thick mass (especially hair) - scrapheap
pile of discarded metal - shock
a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry - slagheap
pile of waste matter from coal mining etc - stack
an orderly pile - haystack, hayrick, rick
a stack of hay - haycock
a small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick - pyre, funeral pyre
wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite - woodpile
a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel - combination
a collection of things that have been combined - amalgam
a combination or blend of diverse things - color scheme, colour scheme
a planned combination of colors - complexion
a combination that results from coupling or interlinking - combination
an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) - combination in restraint of trade
(law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust laws of the United States) - body
a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity - public
a body of people sharing some common interest - world, domain
people in general - society
an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization - migration
a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) - minority
a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part - sector
a social group that forms part of the society or the economy - business, business sector
business concerns collectively - big business
commercial enterprises organized and financed on a scale large enough to influence social and political policies - ethnic group, ethnos
people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture - ethnic minority
a group that has different national or cultural traditions from the majority of the population - race
people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock - color, colour, people of color, people of colour
a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) - master race, Herrenvolk
a race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the others - interest, interest group
(usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims - special interest
an individual or group who are concerned with some particular part of the economy and who try to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor - vested interest
groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit - military-industrial complex
a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment - kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe
group of people related by blood or marriage - mishpocha, mishpachah
(Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) - kith
your friends and acquaintances - family, family unit
primary social group - folk, family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
people descended from a common ancestor - folks
your parents - people
members of a family line - homefolk
the people of your home locality (especially your own family) - house
aristocratic family line - dynasty
a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family - name, gens
family based on male descent - feudalism, feudal system
the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century - patriarchy, patriarchate
a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line - matriarchy, matriarchate
a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line - meritocracy
a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects - building
the occupants of a building - broken home
a family in which the parents have separated or divorced - nuclear family, conjugal family
a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner - extended family
a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives - foster family
the family of a fosterling - foster home
a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) - class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
people having the same social, economic, or educational status - age class
people in the same age range - fringe
a social group holding marginal or extreme views - gathering, assemblage
a group of persons together in one place - bee
a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions - carload
a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile - congregation
an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together - contingent
a gathering of persons representative of some larger group - floor
the occupants of a floor - love feast
a social gathering intended to create goodwill among the participants - quilting bee
a gathering to make quilts - pair
two people considered as a unit - hit parade
a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind - Judaica
historical and literary materials relating to Judaism - kludge
a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together) - library, program library, subroutine library
(computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use - library
a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing - bibliotheca
a collection of books - public library
a nonprofit library maintained for public use - rental collection
a collection of books that can be rented by readers in return for a small daily fee - mythology
myths collectively - classical mythology
the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together - Greek mythology
the mythology of the ancient Greeks - Roman mythology
the mythology of the ancient Romans - Norse mythology
the mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity - singleton
a set containing a single member