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   coterie

   /ˈkəʊt(ə)ri/

   noun

   • 1. a small group of people with shared interests or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people: "a coterie of friends and advisers"

   Word Origin early 18th century: from French, earlier denoting an association of tenants, based on Middle Low German kote ‘cote’.

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   What is a coterie?

   • Definition of coterie noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary a small group of people who have the same interests and do things together but do not like to include others He surrounded himself with an elite coterie of political advisors. Her work attracted a coterie of admirers in the US.

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   What is a coterie of a particular kind?

   • A coterie of a particular kind is a small group of people who are close friends or have a common interest, and who do not want other people to join them. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

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   Where did the word Coterie come from?

   • The modern spelling and meaning of coterie developed in the 18th century from a French word rooted in the feudal system. When the farmers working the land of a feudal lord established an organization, they were called cotiers, or "tenants of a cote" (think "cottage"), and that idea of a select group led to the word coterie.

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   What was a coterie in medieval France?

   • Historically, however, coteries hung around agricultural fields, not garden parties. In medieval France, coterie referred to a group of feudal peasants who together held a parcel of land (that coterie comes from the Old French word for a singular peasant, cotier ).

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   The meaning of COTERIE is an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose. How to use coterie in a sentence. Did you know?

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   Have you noticed how so many of the best TV shows concentrate on a group of friends who seem to mesh together perfectly, to the exclusion of all others? This, then, is a coterie, an exclusive group with common interests.

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   A coterie of a particular kind is a small group of people who are close friends or have a common interest, and who do not want other people to join them.

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   noun. /ˈkəʊtəri/ [countable + singular or plural verb] (formal, often disapproving) a small group of people who have the same interests and do things together but do not like to include others. his little coterie of friends and advisers. a literary coterie. He surrounded himself with an elite coterie of political advisors.