Clustered
/ˈklʌstərd/
Definitions
Grouped or gathered closely together.
/ˈklʌstərd/
Grouped closely together.
The houses were clustered around the town square.
💡 Simply: Think of a bunch of bees swarming around a hive – that's clustered! Things are clustered when they are close together and grouped.
👶 For kids: Lots of things all together, close like a bunch of grapes.
More Examples
The data points were clustered in three distinct groups.
How It's Used
"The stars appeared clustered together in the night sky."
"The bacteria were clustered in colonies on the petri dish."
From Middle English *clustren, from Old English *clustor, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klastro-, related to Old Norse klasi "bunch of grapes".
The word has been used to describe groupings of objects since the Middle English period.
Memory tip
Imagine a bunch of grapes – they're clustered together!