clique
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6.4
- noun
- /klɪk/
:
camarilla
- In high school, she felt pressured to join the popular clique, which excluded many other students.
- a small clique
- member of a clique
- peer cliques
But I would because out of friendship and we had that sort of clique throughout our lives.
- But I would because out of friendship and we had that sort of clique throughout our lives.
- And I'm not in with the clique.
- He was one of seven young actors who were studying Shakespeare like their own little clique.
- Now to achieve glory within your within your clique as a formidable warrior for your side.
- Teachers wouldn't reprimand students that were snickering and mocking me publicly just for the fact that they wanted to seem funny amongst their clique.
- And then I've seen it go back the other way where people have come to this country who've not really wanted to come here and who've tried to start their own cliques.
Examples
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There are some cliques, right in high school, you know.
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Traditions and rituals can honor inclusiveness and shared values, breaking down individual distinctions and cliques within a school community.
Academic text (2005) -
I was part of their clique too, until very recently.
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You just need to find your clique and commit to it.
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Notably, students must have demonstrated this not just with their clique of friends, but across the class as a whole.
Academic text (2011) -
Too many of you have formed into cliques, talking only to your friends.
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The girls had already divided into competing cliques, and they had more fun excluding people than including them.
Fiction book (2001) -
And when I looked at the community of people in personal development that we are all friends with now, I saw a clique that I didn't belong to.
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Well after Danielle banished me from her clique, things in middle school got incredibly complicated for me.
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Through the dark and not so dark millennia of human history, we have organized ourselves into adversarial cliques, communities, and nations.
Synonyms
318
3.3
A group of people with shared interests
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4.9
A small trusted group of people with special power or access in an organization
5
8.7
A small closed group of people who share the same interest
A small group of people with the same interests who treat each other as special
Antonyms
How Exclusive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Clique comes from French, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of people who click together. A clique is a small, closed group that 'clicks' so well with each other that they often do not let others join.