team

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːm/
• Homophone: teem
• Rhymes: -iːm

Etymology 1

From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

Noun

team (plural teams)

1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.

3. (obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
4. (UK, law, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
5. A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus.

Usage notes

• In British English, team is construed as plural, emphasizing the members. In US English it is construed as singular, emphasizing the group. This conforms to the general practice in the two dialects for collective nouns.
  • British English:
  • American English:

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

team (third-person singular simple present teams, present participle teaming, simple past and past participle teamed)

1. (intransitive) To form a group, as for sports or work.

   Synonym: team up

2. (intransitive, by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
3. (transitive) To convey or haul with a team.
   • 1857, Henry David Thoreau journal entry for Feb. 4 1857

     the farmer has been all winter teaming wood along the river

4. (transitive) To form together into a team.

5. (transitive) To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.

Derived terms

• double-team
• team up
• team up with

Interjection

team

1. (video games, colloquial) Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.

Etymology 2

Verb

team

1. Misspelling of teem.

Anagrams

• maté, META, meat, mate, Tame, meta, Meta, meta-, AEMT, Atem, -mate, tame, ATEM, Tema

Chinese

Etymology

From English team.

Pronunciation

Noun

team

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) a group of people working in cooperation and involved in the same activity (Classifier: 條／条 c)

Classifier

team

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for teams of people.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English team, from Middle English teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Doublet of toom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːm/

Noun

team n (plural teams, diminutive teampje n)

1. team (group of people)

   Synonym: ploeg

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English team.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtim/
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

team m (invariable)

1. team (group of people)

   Synonyms: squadra, gruppo

Anagrams

• Meta, mate, matè, meta, meta-, metà, tema

Middle English

Noun

team

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of tem (“group”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English team.

Noun

team n (definite singular teamet, indefinite plural team, definite plural teama or teamene)

1. a team

Synonyms

• lag

Derived terms

• teamarbeid

References

• “team” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English team.

Noun

team n (definite singular teamet, indefinite plural team, definite plural teama)

1. a team

Synonyms

• lag

Derived terms

• teamarbeid

References

• “team” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“pull, draw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæ͜ɑːm/

Noun

tēam m (nominative plural tēamas)

1. childbirth
2. family, offspring
3. a team of draught animals
4. an Anglo-Saxon legal procedure in a stolen goods suit

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Related terms

• tīeman

Descendants

• Middle English: tem, teem, teeme, teme, teome, them, theam, tæm, team (Early Middle English)
  • English: team (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: team

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English team.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtim/
• Rhymes: -im
• Syllabification: team

Noun

team m inan

1. team (well-coordinated group of people working together)
2. (sports) team

   Synonym: drużyna

Declension

Further reading

• team in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• team in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English team.

Noun

team n (uncountable)

1. team (sports)

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From English team.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

team n

1. a team (at a job, or more generally)

Declension

Synonyms

• lag

See also

• arbetslag

References

• team in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• team in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• team in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• meta, tame, tema

Tyap

Verb

team (plural team)

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian tām, from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz.

Noun

team c (plural teammen, diminutive teamke)

1. bridle

Further reading

• “team (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English team.

Noun

team n (plural teams, diminutive teamke)

1. team

   Synonym: ploech

Derived terms

• teamwurk