two or more draft animals that work together to pull something
"The farmer hitched a team of oxen to the heavy plow to till the field."
A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
"The driver cracked his whip to urge the team along the muddy road."
In plain English: A team is a group of people who work together to achieve something specific.
"The whole team worked hard to finish the project on time."
Usage: Use the noun to refer specifically to pairs of draft animals pulling vehicles rather than modern groups of people working together. As a verb, it means to organize individuals into such a unit for labor or competition.
To form a group, as for sports or work.
"The editor corrected his misspelling of "teem" to avoid confusion with the word "team.""
Misspelling of teem.
In plain English: To team means to join forces with other people to work together on something.
"We need to team up with our neighbors to fix the fence before winter hits."
A river in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, which flows into the River Tyne. It has other names further upstream in County Durham.
"The Team is a small river that flows through Gateshead before joining the larger River Tyne."
The word team comes from Old English tēam, which originally meant a set of draught animals used for pulling. This meaning evolved directly into the modern sense of a group working together to achieve something.