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A coterie is a small group of people who enjoy the same things and spend time together — and they are not eager to let new people in. It is a slightly word: a teacher or a newspaper might say it; teenagers more often say or their little group. The feeling can be warm (a tight circle who share a hobby) or a little cold (the door is closed). It is not a secret society; it is more like a private club without the building.
組成Borrowed from French coterie. Behind the French word, the older story goes through Medieval Latin coteria and is tied to people around a small hut (the same deep root as English cot).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
coterienoun/ˈkəʊtəɹi/
- 1
A circle of individuals who associate with one another for a common purpose.
- The new junior employee joined our merry after-hours coterie.
- A tightly knit coterie of executive powerbrokers made all the real decisions in the company.
- 2
A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
- The coterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.
- The population of each coterie constantly changes over a period of a few months or years, by death, birth, and emigration. But the coterie boundary remains about the same, being learned by each prairie dog born into it.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。