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coterie

[ koh-tuh-ree ]

noun

  1. a group of people who associate closely.
  2. an exclusive group; clique.
  3. a group of prairie dogs occupying a communal burrow.


coterie

/ ˈkəʊtərɪ /

noun

  1. a small exclusive group of friends or people with common interests; clique
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coterie1

First recorded in 1730–40; from French, Middle French: “an association of tenant farmers,” from Medieval Latin coter(ius) cotter 2 + -ie -y 3
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Word History and Origins

Origin of coterie1

C18: from French, from Old French: association of tenants, from cotier (unattested) cottager, from Medieval Latin cotārius cotter ²; see cot ²
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Example Sentences

She often attracted a coterie of younger activists as she lectured around the country and conducted workshops on understanding racism.

In a few short years in the 1940s and into the 1950s, this coterie framed the rules and institutions that define American national security and the global international system to this day.

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Fascists rely on a tight coterie of corrupt loyalists to take over the government and impose control.

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A thundering coterie of chirping prairie dogs darted chaotically around the grasslands.

DiCarlo and Yamins, who now runs his own lab at Stanford University, are part of a coterie of neuroscientists using deep neural networks to make sense of the brain’s architecture.

Yet as Emily Bazelon revealed in Slate, a coterie of right-wing organizations has indeed lined up to oppose contraception itself.

There has long been a small coterie clamoring to pray there.

Barbra Streisand and Denzel Washington, along with a coterie of A-listers, have sent their toddlers there.

Quick-witted, sharp-tongued, and flirtatious, Anne drew a coterie of men to her, and each would lose his head for her.

Only Hagel's supposed anti-Semitism is a slander pushed almost exclusively by a small coterie of neoconservatives.

At that time Baudelaire's work was only known to a distinguished literary coterie.

Novall Junior and his coterie appear here as in their former presentation in II, ii.

To the end, the coterie would act according to the light of their own eyes.

This abuse was attacked by an enterprising reformer, and of course defended by the coterie.

They formed a coterie at Cambridge, and spent most of their holidays at Newstead.

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