Coterie

Definition: Coterie

Coterie

Noun

1. An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "coterie" was first used: 1738. (references)

Synonyms: Coterie

Party

Knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall.

Sociality

Social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly; (assemblage); barbecue, bee; corn-husking, corn-shucking; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee; infare.

Crosswords: Coterie

French (clique, coterie), Romanian (clique, coterie), Russian (clique).

Books

• John Donne, Coterie Poet (reference)

• The Arts in Mind: Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of Letters (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Jody's Coterie (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Afrikaans

kliek (clan, clique, junto, set). (various references)

Albanian

taraf, rreth (around, brim, by, circa, circle, circlet, circuit, compass, concerning, disc, district, gabion, girth, gyre, periphery, range, region, rim, ring, rondure, round, somewhere, union), grup (array, batch, body, bracket, camp, clutch, cohort, colony, confederate, crowd, gang, group, groupment, lot, parcel, party, phalanx, platoon, squad, tally, team, troop, unit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حلقة (circle, fake, installment, instalment, ring), ‏زمرة (clan, clique, faction, group, knot, pack, party, squad), ‏شلة (hank). (various references)

Czech

kotérie (clique). (various references)

Dutch

troep (accumulation, are, band, bevy, clique, cluster, collection, crowd, gang, good great group, group, heap, herd, junto, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, troop, troupe), pal (clique, exactly, firmly, junto, just, okay, right, set), kongsi (clique, junto, set), kliek (clique, junto, set). (various references)

Esperanto

kliko (clique, junto, set). (various references)

Farsi 

گروه هم مسلک . (various references)

French

coterie, clique, cercle (compass). (various references)

German

geschlossene Gesellschaft. (various references)

Greek 

κύκλοσ συντροφιάσ, κλίκα (cabal, camarilla, clique), όμιλοσ (association, band, club, company, Covey, crew, gang, group, knot, ring), συντροφιά (bevy, camaraderie, circle, companionship, company, fellow ship, partnership, partship, society). (various references)

Hungarian

csoportosulás (alignment, cluster, concourse, disposition, group), kör (circle, circuit, compass, cycle, cyclo, lap, range, ring, rondure, round, scope, social club, sphere). (various references)

Indonesian

kelompok teman. (various references)

Italian

consorteria (clique, faction, political clique), circolo (circle, circlet, club, ring, social club, society, torus). (various references)

Manx

kiarkyl (circle, O, rim, ring). (various references)

Pig Latin

oteriecay

Portuguese

conventículo, círculo social, roda (circle, impeller, round, shout, wheel), relativo � roda. (various references)

Romanian

coterie (clique), cerc (band, circle, circles, class, compass, district, extent, hoop, range, rim, ring, round, set, sphere, zone), gaşcã (bunch, caboodle, clan, clique, pack), bisericuţã (chapel, clique). (various references)

Russian 

кружок (circle, circlet), избранный (chosen, elect). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

krug lica sa zajedničkim interesom. (various references)

Spanish

trinquete (clique, foremast, junto, pallet, pawl, ratchet, set, trip). (various references)

Swedish

kotteri (clique, set). (various references)

Thai

กลุ่มคนเล็กๆ ที่สนใจในเรื่องเ�"ียวกัน. (various references)

Turkish

zümre (category, clan, class, set), topluluk (army, cohort, colony, community, company, corps, crowd, ensemble, gathering, group, herd, hive, knot, party, push, set, society, troop), seçkin çevre. (various references)

Vietnamese 

phái (community, persuasion, side), nhóm (bevy, crowd, galaxy, groupment, number, plump). (various references)

kote. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "coterie": coteries. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Coterie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cataria, caterie, caterine, Citabria, citeria, citerite, Coberine, Codorniu, coeterie, corterie, Costertium, cotari, cotenine, coteri, coterize, cotery, Cothereau, Cotterel, Cotteril, Coturnix, Couepia, couterie, Cuttaree, Kotadia, octarsier, Osteria, Poterie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cerite, erotic, recite, tierce.

-2 letters: citer, erect, recti, recto, retie, terce, toric, trice.

-3 letters: cere, cero, cete, cire, cite, coir, core, cote, etic, otic, rete, rice, riot, rite, rote, roti, tier, tire, tiro, torc, tore, tori, tree, trio.

-4 letters: cee, cor, cot, ere, ice, ire, orc, ore, ort, rec, ree, rei, ret, roc, roe.

+1 letter: coteries, erection, esoteric, exoteric, meteoric, neoteric, orective.

+2 letters: centriole, erections, eroticize, esoterica, excoriate, excretion, geometric, heterotic, iceboater, neoterics, ozocerite, reception, recondite, rectories, refection, rejection, resection, secretion, theoretic, ureotelic.

+3 letters: auctioneer, botcheries, categories, categorise, categorize, ceilometer, centrioles, charioteer, clinometer, cloistered, codirected, coerecting, coexerting, cointerred, concertize, concretize, coquetries, cordierite, coresident, cornetcies, corrective, corsetiere, corsetries, courtesied, courtesies, couturiere, decorative, egocentric, electroing, electronic, entodermic, ergometric, eroticized, eroticizes, erotogenic, escritoire, estrogenic, excerption, excoriated, excoriates, excretions, execration, exothermic, ferocities, fictioneer, geocentric, geometrics, hectoliter, helicopter, iceboaters, incoherent, innocenter, interocean, meteoritic, micrometer, nonreceipt, orogenetic, overactive, overdirect, overexcite, ozocerites, perception, perfection, prelection, premeiotic, projectile, projective, protective, receptions, recreation, reelection, refections, reflection, rejections, resections, ricocheted, rocketries, secretions, spirochete, tricolette, ventricose, viscometer, vociferate.