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Answer for the clue "Group of eight ", 6 letters:
ogdoad

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Word definitions for ogdoad in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ogdoad may refer to: Ogdoad (Egyptian) Ogdoad (Gnosticism)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one [syn: eight , 8 , VIII , eighter , eighter from Decatur , octad , octonary , octet ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A thing made up of eight parts.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
ogdoad \og"do*ad\ ([o^]g"d[-o]*[a^]d), n. [Gr. 'ogdoa`s, 'ogdoa`dos, from 'oktw` eight.] A thing made up of eight parts. --Milman.

Usage examples of ogdoad.

Reasoning in this way, the Egyptians naturally tended towards that conception of the divine oneness to which the theory of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad was already leading them.

Nuit, Hehu and Hehit, Kaku and Kakit, Ninu and Ninit, the god One and the god Eight, the Monad and the Ogdoad.