Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. synonym: gather.
- adjective Involving a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To collect or bring together into an assemblage.; assemble; bring into one place or into a crowd or mass.
- To bring to a center or focus; concentrate.
- To come together; assemble; meet, especially in large numbers.
- Collected; compact; close.
- Of or pertaining to an assemblage or congregation; associate; joint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Collected; compact; close.
- intransitive verb To come together; to assemble; to meet.
- transitive verb 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective rare
Collected ;compact ;close . - verb transitive : To collect into an
assembly orassemblage ; toassemble ; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact. - verb intransitive : To come together; to assemble; to
meet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb come together, usually for a purpose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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When I'm on trips, I often "congregate" -- heading off to the latest ustream or online free event, but otherwise, I am very selective.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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When I'm on trips, I often "congregate" -- heading off to the latest ustream or online free event, but otherwise, I am very selective.
Be a human BEING rather than a human DOING: Making choices in Overchoice 2008
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November 28th, 2008 at 1: 24 pm PST kongregate is an online flash game site. it is english, based on the word congregate, with the c replaced by a k. i am a member. it is completely free, and it is a friendly site where every1 can have their own profile, like facebook and myspace. there are different chatrooms that people can join in anytime they want. generally, its a good place to go to if you are bored reply
Kongregate Gets $3 Million From Bezos: Growing Fast and About To Unleash Its Games on Facebook Erick Schonfeld 2005
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Being called to Washington as a leading delegate, with power to help settle all these great questions that were then agitating the country, St. Clair Enson and Walker decided that it would be best to close the Hall, leaving Isaac, Aunt Henny and Marthy in charge of the house, and take the rest of the hands to Washington, where so many rich and influential men would congregate from the most southern parts of the country, that they would be assured of quick sales and large profits.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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Basically, any place where rats and vermin congregate.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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She can ` t live or be within 1,000 feet of anywhere where children may congregate, which is a school, a park, a library, anything of the sort.
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And instead of having people kind of congregate outside of the building, they had people kind of doing a drive thru where they had people, employees taking applications right out of the drivers 'cars.
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And instead of having people kind of congregate outside of the building, they had people kind of doing a drive thru where they had people, employees taking applications right out of the drivers 'cars.
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A couple of people kind of congregate around the officer and one of them tells the officer that his wife is in that vehicle, and they have to get to the hospital.
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Did everybody kind of congregate together in one area or did everybody just sort of go to where they thought was a safe spot hoping that they would be OK?
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