Group
Group noun - A usually small number of persons considered as a unit.
Usage example: the next tour group was being seated for dinner
Sect
Sect noun - A group of people acting together within a larger group.
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Synonyms for Sect
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How words are described
| particular | particular group | particular sect |
| specific | specific group | specific sect |
| certain | certain group | certain sect |
| original | original group | original sect |
| Other adjectives: small, powerful, entire, large, evil, black, main, rogue, secret, white, new, religious, military, mysterious, radical, different, Christian, local, terrorist, largest. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Quakers, the religious group that is a Christian sect, once tried to sue Quaker Oats for using the name of the religion (established in the 1600's) and the image of a supposedly historical Quaker.
Source: Screwed by the Lawyers - There was a group called the Luciferians that was persecuted by the Catholic Church as a heretical sect during the Middle Ages.
Source: Satan Is Good - Though the group is commonly thought of as a US sect, more members currently live outside of the United States than in it.
Source: Useful Notes / Mormonism
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