Team
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /tiːm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Team is a noun meaning A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
Meaning
A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
More Meanings
- Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
- A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.
- (intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.
- (intransitive, by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
- (transitive) To convey or haul with a team.
- (UK, law, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
- (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
Example Sentences
a long team of snowy swans on high
We need more volunteers for the netball team.
she will wonder to have a teeme of ducklings about her
The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
Word Forms
- teams
- teaming
- teamed
Synonyms for team
Depending on context, synonyms include team up, squad.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include squad, team up, coach, sled, yoke, pack.
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