clique – English noun declension

English noun forms of clique

Noun: clique
Singularclique
Pluralcliques

Sample Sentences

  • This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
  • There had been talk of some disagreement about a picture, but in Sir Maxwell's experience, artists frequently disagreed about pictures, with no more consequences than a little cold-shouldering or the formation of a clique. [1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings:]
  • The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
  • Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused. [1999, Jackie, “someone help me out?”, in alt.fan.leo-dicaprio (Usenet):]
  • even though we're not "regulars" anymore...*sniffle*...we still can't forget the NG...i always tell new fans about it...(people who join my clique, etc...)...and besides...i owe the NG a LOT...itz where i met my best friend... [2000, - deanna -, “ot: hiya”, in alt.fan.backstreet.boys (Usenet):]
  • you always have to click some big section and you get a whole new set of options in a different frame, thats^([sic]) usually on the other side of the screen. when you're there, you can choose from (in a section site stuff or something like that) link me, link you, links, top 10 links, free for all links, cliques, and webrings. [2001, spee2k, “future no doubt website....”, in alt.music.no-doubt (Usenet):]
  • The Skeleton Clique, often referred to as just 'the clique,' is what members of the Twenty One Pilots fandom have dubbed themselves. [2016, “Skeleton Clique Shows Support for Twenty One Pilots”, in The Horizon, Westwood Student Press:]
  • In the South, too, due either to direct or indirect machinations by imperialism, there mushroomed many cliques and factions which fought against one another; in the provinces, small cliques and factions within big ones were also struggling against one another. [1954, Chen Boda, “Chapter 2”, in Notes on Ten Years of Civil War (1927-1936), Foreign Language Press, Beijing, page 42:]
  • Within the military, the Kwangsi clique of Li Tsung-jen and Pai Ch’ung-hsi were openly opposed to Chiang’s policies; while Ho Ying-ch’in and others were ambivalent. [1976, Donald A. Jordan, “Chapter 14: Taking the Expedition into North China”, in The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926–1928, The University Press of Hawaii, page 157:]
  • The Clique’s goal was not to conquer China but first to preserve its position in Manchuria and then to establish itself as one of the national leaders through war, alliance forming, seeking foreign recognition, and building up political authority. [2017, Chi Man Kwong, “War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria”, in Studies on Modern East Asian History, volume 1, Brill, page 90:]
  • And, in this year, Wu Peifu, by defeating the Fengtian Clique in the Zhili-Fengtian Clique War, also reached the zenith of his power and influence. [2022, Vivienne Xiangwei Guo, “Chapter 5 The Beginning of the End: Wu Peifu and Good Government”, in Negotiating A Chinese Federation, Brill, page 143:]

Etymology

Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by claque, though this may have happened in French rather than in English. See: French Nouns 'clique'.