释义 |
coterieco‧te‧rie /ˈkəʊtəri $ ˈkoʊ-/ noun [countable] formal  coterieOrigin: 1700-1800 French, Old French, ‘group of farmers renting land’, from an unrecorded Old French cotier ‘someone who lives in a cottage, farmer’, from Medieval Latin cotarius, from English cot; ➔ COTTAGE - His loyal coterie of fans crowded the stage.
- Directly below the king was a coterie of intellectuals possessing mind of the highest order.
- My guess would be that they are the same advisers or perhaps from the same coterie of advisers.
- Normally it comes from what she likes to call her coterie of friends and advisers.
- That coterie would also act, as they did for the 1991 event, very much as a think tank.
- Yet what our little coterie suffered was, I believe, disproportionate to our vices.
a small group of people who enjoy doing the same things together, and do not like including others → clique |