Meaning & use

grouping

noun·Academic

A collection of people or things gathered together and treated as a single category.

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The census organizes households into groupings based on income and location.

The librarian created a new grouping for books about local history.

A note on using this word

Grouping emphasizes the process or result of classifying items, while 'group' can simply mean a gathered set.

Words with a similar meaning

categorycluster

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