Word Finder - coteries

definition

A circle of people who associate with one another.

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The new junior employee joined our merry after-hours coterie.

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An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose.

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A tightly knit coterie of executive powerbrokers made all the real decisions in the company.

synonyms

• clique

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A communal burrow of prairie dogs.

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The coterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.

In a similar manner, while he abhorred the French Revolution when it came, he seems to have had no apprehension, like Chesterfield, Burke, or even Horace Walpole, of its approach; nor does he appear to have at all suspected that it had had anything to do with the speculations of the philosophic coteries in which he had taken such delight.

Small coteries of Jewish minor poets and philosophers were formed, and men like Kalonymos and Immanuel - Dante's friend - shared the versatility and culture of Italy.

Take away her assiduous frequentation of society, from the later philosophe coteries to the age of Byron - take away the influence of Constant and Schlegel and her other literary friends - and probably little of her will remain.

The cities of Strassburg, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Basel, became centres of learned coteries, which gathered round scholars like Wimpheling, Brant, Peutinger, Schedel, and Pirckheimer, artists like Darer and Holbein, printers of the eminence of Froben.

They are mainly noticeable as proving that certain coteries in Spain were willing to accept the Italian Renaissance.

Still, some adherents of the old Israelitish moral and religious standards must have survived, only they were not to be found in the chief places of concourse, but as a rule in coteries which handed on the traditions of Amos and Isaiah in sorrowful retirement.

Notable among these are the texts circulated among literary coteries.