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noun

Cluster n.

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. "Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine."

A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. "Cluster of provinces."

A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. "As bees... Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters." "We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city."

verb

Cluster v. t. To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. "Not less the bee would range her cells,... The foxglove cluster dappled bells." "Or from the forest falls the clustered snow."

Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

Cluster v. i. (past & past part. clustered; pres. part. clustering) To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. "His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's." "The princes of the country clustering together."

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Etymology of 'Cluster'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cluster" Quotes from Famous Books

... were no longer afraid, and in about half an hour they rode with their cowboy friends into the cluster of ranch buildings. ...

— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope

... the shadow,—something moving, among the still reflections of the rocks. Hildegarde looked up. There, growing in a cranny of the rock above her, was a cluster of purple bells, nodding and swaying on slender thread-like stems. They were so beautiful that she could only sit still and look at them at first, with eyes of delight. But they were so friendly, and nodded in such a cheerful way, that she soon felt ...

— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards

... in which the grammatically significant elements cluster, as in Latin, at the end of the word is yielded by Fox, one of the better known Algonkin languages of the Mississippi Valley. We may take the form eh-kiwi-n-a-m-oht-ati-wa-ch(i) "then they together kept (him) in flight from them." The radical element here is kiwi-, a verb stem indicating ...

— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir

... than the one we had left on the old plantation in Virginia. In fact, in one respect it was worse. Notwithstanding the poor condition of our plantation cabin, we were at all times sure of pure air. Our new home was in the midst of a cluster of cabins crowded closely together, and as there were no sanitary regulations, the filth about the cabins was often intolerable. Some of our neighbours were coloured people, and some were the poorest and most ignorant and degraded white people. It was a motley mixture. Drinking, gambling, ...

— Up From Slavery: An Autobiography • Booker T. Washington

... stood by her side in that room, amid a cluster of revolutionists, her husband and Yeffim being each the center of another ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

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