Adjacent Words

Congregate definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONGREGATE, v.t. [L., a herd. See Gregarious.] To collect separate persons or things into an assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a crowd or united body; as, to congregate men or animals; to congregate waters or sands.
CONGREGATE, v.i. To come together; to assemble; to meet.
Equals with equals often congregate.
CONGREGATE, a. Collected; compact; close. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: come together, usually for a purpose; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve"

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (-gated; -gating) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin congregatus, past participle of congregare, from com- + greg-, grex flock Date: 15th century transitive verb to collect into a group or crowd ; assemble intransitive verb to come together into a group, crowd, or assembly Synonyms: see gather • congregator noun II. adjective Date: 1900 providing or being group services or facilities designed especially for elderly persons requiring supportive services <congregate housing>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. & tr. collect or gather into a crowd or mass. Etymology: ME f. L congregare (as com-, gregare f. grex gregis flock)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Congregate Con"gre*gate, a. [L. congregatus, p. p. of congregare to congregate; on- + gregare to collect into a flock, fr. grex flock, herd. See Gregarious.] Collected; compact; close. [R.] --Bacon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Congregate Con"gre*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Congregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Congregating] To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. --Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. --Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Congregate Con"gre*gate, v. i. To come together; to assemble; to meet. Even there where merchants most do congregate. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(congregates, congregating, congregated) When people congregate, they gather together and form a group. Visitors congregated on Sunday afternoons to view public exhibitions. VERB: V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Assemble, collect, muster, gather, convene, convoke, bring together. II. v. n. Assemble, meet, collect, muster, gather, convene, throng, come or crowd together, come together, meet together.

Moby Thesaurus

assemble, bunch, bunch up, clot, cluster, collect, come together, congress, converge, copulate, couple, crowd, date, flock together, flow together, forgather, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, herd together, hive, horde, huddle, league, link, mass, meet, merge, mill, muster, raise, rally, rally around, rendezvous, seethe, stream, surge, swarm, teem, throng, unite