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Definition of Clique
1. Noun. An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose.
Generic synonyms: Band, Circle, Lot, Set
Specialized synonyms: Bloomsbury Group, Bohemia, Brain Trust, Kitchen Cabinet, Loop, Cabal, Camarilla, Faction, Junto, Junta, Military Junta, Maffia, Mafia, Faction, Sect, Galere, Rogue's Gallery, Hard Core
Definition of Clique
1. n. A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; - - generally used in a bad sense.
2. v. i. To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.
Definition of Clique
1. Noun. A small, exclusive group of individuals; cabal ¹
2. Noun. (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph. ¹
3. Noun. (Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clique
1. to form a clique (an exclusive group of persons) [v CLIQUED, CLIQUING, CLIQUES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clique
Literary usage of Clique
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulls and Bears of New York: With the Crisis of 1873, and the Cause by Matthew Hale Smith (1874)
""A clique." A combination of brokers formed to carry stock or gold, is termed "
a clique." It takes a number of heavy men to form a successful clique. ..."
2. Political Nativism in New York State by Louis Dow Scisco (1901)
"The slavery issue, thus stimulated, intruded itself into the Know-Nothing councils
and joined itself with the growing opposition to the Barker clique. ..."
3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"1 The senatorial clique who were Grant's stanch supporters in his Southern ...
Sherman and Edmunds are sometimes included in this senatorial clique but they ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"To the world the King's reader and ex-physician seemed a humble member of a
royalist clique, whose notables were Rantzau-Ascheberg, St Germain, ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1869)
"The Sun of yesterday says: " On that Thursday night the clique determined to
bring their scheme to a head. They had gold enough to enable them, ..."
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