A group or colony of badgers living together, or an archaic word for a company of people.
From Middle English and Old French, possibly related to Latin 'coetus' meaning assembly or group. The badger meaning became specialized over time.
A cete of badgers is one of English's most charming collective nouns, right up there with a murder of crows—it appears in medieval hunting texts and reflects how people observed animal social groups centuries ago.
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