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congregate
[kong-gri-geyt, kong-gri-git, -geyt]
verb (used without object)
to come together; assemble, especially in large numbers.
People waiting for rooms congregated in the hotel lobby.
verb (used with object)
to bring together in a crowd, body, or mass; assemble; collect.
adjective
congregated; assembled.
formed by collecting; collective.
congregate
verb
to collect together in a body or crowd; assemble
adjective
collected together; assembled
relating to collecting; collective
Other Word Forms
- congregativeness noun
- congregative adjective
- congregator noun
- decongregate verb
- noncongregative adjective
- uncongregated adjective
- uncongregative adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of congregate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of congregate1
Example Sentences
“There are so many people walking their kids to maybe 15 different schools. And then they’re all congregating at Ralph’s afterwards. Schools start at 8, and it opens at 8.”
By 2021, as they pushed west, they landed at South Tufa, where tourists congregate to gaze at the limestone columns.
"In particular, we urge people not to congregate outside communal premises and synagogues to keep their doors closed at all times", they said.
A small group of people — a number of them women in their 60s and 70s with gray braids and top-of-the-line rain jackets — have been congregating here for months to protest the federal immigration crackdown.
Defend Our Juries who organised the protest said: "Whilst the Labour party congregate at their annual conference, protestors are outside disobeying the unjust ban on Palestine Action."
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