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study group

study group

32 2.8
A group of people who meet regularly to learn and talk about school or course material
  • noun
  • /ˈstʌdi ɡruːp/
translation icon : grupo de estudio
  • My classmates and I formed a study group to review for the upcoming exam.

So yeah, raise your hand, go to office hours, form study groups, join study groups.

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Examples

  • And I encourage you to also form study groups and work together through the case discussions and to take advantage of the online forum to ask questions.

  • As is their practice, they worked together last night as a study group to prepare for the exam.

    Academic text (1994)
  • So yeah, raise your hand, go to office hours, form study groups, join study groups.

  • So some students happen to be in study groups with a poor kid and others were not.

  • So my study group is going to really look from the inside out, hands on how do we make the decisions in the campaign?

  • Well, if you must know, a small study group of friends.

  • How was your study group?

  • Um, listen, uh, a few of us are putting together a study group.

  • There's a study group at my apartment tonight.

  • You're going to do study groups and study for those art history exams together, you know?

Synonyms

discussion section
vsstudy group
  • US
3.4

A small group in a course where students meet to talk about material, usually led by a teaching assistant

meets independently and informally organized by peers for regular learning sessions

Antonyms

2.3

A single person or animal regarded separately from a group

How Formal

tutorial
  • UK
25 4.0
seminar
209 3.7
class
1.0
study group
32 2.8
meetup
  • Texting
13 3.5

Surface Forms

study group singular
study groups plural

Morphology

study + group

The meaning 'a group of people who study together' is directly and compositionally derived from 'study' (the activity of learning) + 'group' (a set of people). This noun–noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Study group comes from a simple picture of students who meet to learn together. The word study means learning and group means people who come together, so today study group means 'a group of people who regularly meet to study and discuss class material'.