Cluster
/ˈklʌs.tər/noun
A group of similar things close together or gathered in one place.
Did you know?Cluster is related to Old English clūd, meaning a mass of rock, which also gave English the word cloud—so the idea of a cluster and a cloud began as the same “gathered mass.”
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
clyster
“a bunch or cluster, especially of grapes”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*kludrō / *kludrą
“a lump, mass, or cluster”
Old English
OE
clūd
“a mass of rock or hill; later also cloud”
Middle English
ME
cluster
“a group or bunch of things growing or gathered together”
Modern English
English
cluster
“a group of similar things close together”