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Definition of Coterie
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 Coterie
1. n. A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique.
Definition of Coterie
1. Noun. A circle of people who associate with one another. ¹
2. Noun. An exclusive group of people, who associate closely for a common purpose; a clique. ¹
3. Noun. A communal burrow of prairie dogs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coterie
1. a clique [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coterie
Literary usage of Coterie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Doctor Johnson and Mrs. Thrale by Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1910)
"Ill ^ THE STREATHAM coterie AND CORRESPONDENCE— UNPUBLISHED THRALE LETTERS century
of the salon in France was preeminently that of the coterie in England. ..."
2. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne (1770)
"... coterie—and fhe put off the epocha of ... I -remember it was in this coterie^
in the middle of a ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"coterie properly a mat, then the place where a mat is laid for sleeping. The Mid.
... coterie, an assembly, properly a club where each pays his part. ..."
4. Making Woodrow Wilson President by William Frank McCombs, Louis Jay Lang (1921)
"As already hinted, the White House coterie sought McCombs' scalp even upon the
eve of Wilson's first inauguration, but were unsuccessful. ..."
5. Social Life Under the Stuarts by Elizabeth Godfrey, Jessie Bedford (1904)
"CHAPTER XI THE LITERARY coterie DURING the halcyon time, as Clarendon calls it,
between the accession of Charles I. and the outbreak of the Great Rebellion, ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"In his early graduate days he »wed for the university in the first belonged to
the coterie of so-called 'Apostles,' whose symposia are celebrated by ..."
7. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"II THE WARWICKSHIRE coterie Somewhat apart from the more famous letter-writers
of the age stood a circle of friends, some of whom might be described as in ..."
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