Congregate (original) (raw)

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come together, usually for a purpose

Example:

The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "congregate" is one way to...):

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The crowds congregate in the streets

Derivation:

congregating; congregation (the act of congregating)

congregation (an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together)

congregation (a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church)

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Context examples:

They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds—they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)