name
Meaning 1
Alternative letter-case form of Clique.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
clique
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kliːk/
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rhymes with -iːk
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homophone: cleek
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/ˈklɪk/
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homophone: click
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homophone: klick
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CMU ARPABET: K L IY1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Ellipsis of the Skeleton Clique (“the fan base of the Twenty One Pilots”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences
Examples
- The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 6
A shortened form of the Skeleton Clique, the fan base of the Twenty One Pilots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: set, circle, band, lot
Narrower terms: Bloomsbury Group, bohemia, kitchen cabinet, brain trust, loop, cabal, faction, junto, camarilla, military junta, junta, mafia, maffia, sect, galere, rogue's gallery, hard core
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by claque, though this may have happened in French rather than in English.
Across languages
Translations
92 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: kliek — small, exclusive group
- Albanian: klikë — small, exclusive group
- Arabic: طُغْمَة (ṭuḡma) — small, exclusive group
- Arabic: عُصْبَة (ʕuṣba) — small, exclusive group
- Arabic: زَمْرَة (zamra) — small, exclusive group
- Armenian: խառնակչախումբ (xaṙnakčʻaxumb) — small, exclusive group
- Azerbaijani: güruh — small, exclusive group
- Azerbaijani: dəstə — small, exclusive group
- Belarusian: клі́ка (klíka) — small, exclusive group
- Bulgarian: кли́ка (klíka) — small, exclusive group
- Catalan: clica — small, exclusive group
- Catalan: colla — small, exclusive group
- Chinese Mandarin: 小集團 /小集团 (xiǎo jítuán) — small, exclusive group
- Chinese Mandarin: 小圈子 (xiǎo quānzi) — small, exclusive group
- Chinese Mandarin: 派系 (pàixì) — small, exclusive group
- Chinese Mandarin: 朋黨 /朋党 (péngdǎng) — small, exclusive group
- Czech: klika — small, exclusive group
- Danish: klik — small, exclusive group
- Dutch: kliek — small, exclusive group
- Esperanto: kliko — small, exclusive group
- Estonian: klikk — small, exclusive group
- Finnish: kuppikunta — small, exclusive group
- French: clique — small, exclusive group
- Georgian: კლიკა (ḳliḳa) — small, exclusive group
- German: Clique — small, exclusive group
- Greek: κλίκα (klíka) — small, exclusive group
- Hebrew: קְלִיקָה (klíka) — small, exclusive group
- Hindi: गुट (guṭ) — small, exclusive group
- Hungarian: klikk — small, exclusive group
- Irish: aicme — small, exclusive group
- Italian: cricca — small, exclusive group
- Italian: conventicola — small, exclusive group
- Italian: congrega — small, exclusive group
- Italian: cosca — small, exclusive group
- Italian: camarilla — small, exclusive group
- Italian: consorteria — small, exclusive group
- Italian: associazione — small, exclusive group
- Japanese: 派閥 (habatsu) — small, exclusive group
- Japanese: クリーク (kurīku) — small, exclusive group
- Kazakh: сұрқиялар тобы (sūrqiälar toby) — small, exclusive group
- Kazakh: клика (klika) — small, exclusive group
- Korean: 파벌 (pabeol) — small, exclusive group
- Korean: 패거리 (paegeori) — small, exclusive group
- Latvian: kliķe — small, exclusive group
- Lithuanian: klika — small, exclusive group
- Macedonian: клика (klika) — small, exclusive group
- Māori: uepū — small, exclusive group
- Norwegian Bokmål: klikk — small, exclusive group
- Persian: گروهک (goruhak) — small, exclusive group
- Polish: klika — small, exclusive group
- Polish: koteria — small, exclusive group
- Polish: stronnictwo — small, exclusive group
- Polish: banda — small, exclusive group
- Portuguese: panelinha — small, exclusive group
- Portuguese: clique — small, exclusive group
- Romanian: clică — small, exclusive group
- Russian: кли́ка (klíka) — small, exclusive group
- Serbo-Croatian: кли̏ка — small, exclusive group
- Serbo-Croatian: klȉka — small, exclusive group
- Slovak: klika — small, exclusive group
- Slovene: klika — small, exclusive group
- Spanish: pandilla — small, exclusive group
- Spanish: círculo — small, exclusive group
- Spanish: mundillo — small, exclusive group
- Spanish: bando — small, exclusive group
- Spanish: bolita — small, exclusive group
- Spanish: corrillo — small, exclusive group
- Spanish: clica — small, exclusive group
- Spanish: clika — small, exclusive group
- Swedish: klick — small, exclusive group
- Thai: กลุ่ม (glùm) — small, exclusive group
- Thai: พวก (pûuak) — small, exclusive group
- Thai: คณะ (ká-ná) — small, exclusive group
- Thai: พรรคพวก — small, exclusive group
- Thai: ก๊ก (gók) — small, exclusive group
- Thai: ก๊วน (gúuan) — small, exclusive group
- Thai: เหล่า (lào) — small, exclusive group
- Turkish: klik — small, exclusive group
- Ukrainian: клі́ка (klíka) — small, exclusive group
- Vietnamese: bọn — small, exclusive group
- Vietnamese: bè lũ — small, exclusive group
- Vietnamese: đảng phái — small, exclusive group
- Chinese Mandarin: 團 /团 (tuán) — subgraph
- Czech: klika — subgraph
- Dutch: clique — subgraph
- Finnish: klikki — subgraph
- German: Clique — subgraph
- Hebrew: קליקה (klíka) — subgraph
- Italian: cricca — subgraph
- Russian: кли́ка (klíka) — subgraph
- Spanish: clica — subgraph
- Thai: กลุ่มพรรคพวก — subgraph