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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

group, grouping go
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

accumulation, collection, aggregation, assemblage go
several things grouped together or considered as a whole

class, category, family
a collection of things sharing a common attribute

noun.group

11 Subcategories

grammatical category, syntactic category go
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
paradigm, substitution class go
the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
brass family go
(music) the family of brass instruments
violin family go
(music) the family of bowed stringed instruments
woodwind family go
(music) the family of woodwind instruments
stamp go
a type or class
sex go
either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided
declension go
a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
conjugation go
a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
denomination go
a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money
histocompatibility complex go
a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response