Band Definition–noun | 1. | a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters. | | 2. | Music. | a. | a group of instrumentalists playing music of a specialized type: rock band; calypso band; mariachi band. | | b. | a musical group, usually employing brass, percussion, and often woodwind instruments, that plays esp. for marching or open-air performances. | | | 3. | a division of a nomadic tribe; a group of individuals who move and camp together and subsist by hunting and gathering. | | 4. | a group of persons living outside the law: a renegade band. | –verb (used with object) | 5. | to unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. | –verb (used without object) | 6. | to unite; confederate (often fol. by together): They banded together to oust the chairman. | —Idiom | 7. | to beat the band, Informal. energetically; abundantly: It rained all day to beat the band. | |
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