<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.</li><li>Synonyms: assembly, association, society, set, body, group, gang.</li><li>Music: a group of instrumentalists playing music of a specialized type: rock band; calypso band; mariachi band.</li><li>a musical group, usually employing brass, percussion, and often woodwind instruments, that plays especially for marching or open-air performances.</li><li>big band.</li><li>dance band.</li><li>a division of a nomadic tribe; a group of individuals who move and camp together and subsist by hunting and gathering.</li><li>a group of persons living outside the law: a renegade band.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to unite; confederate (often followed by together): They banded together to oust the chairman.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>