adj
Meaning 1
Congregated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
congregate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈkɒŋɡɹəɡət/
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UK: /ˈkɒŋɡɹəɡeɪt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Congregated (organized on a congregational basis).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: Christianity
Examples
- congregate churches
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Collective; assembled; compact.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Assembled persons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to bring into one place, or into a united body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: amass, assemble, compact, bring together, gather, mass, aggregate, bracket, aggroup, collect, corral, confer, congregate, gather up, group, herd, round up, team, team up, togetherize
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To come together; to assemble; to meet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: assemble, begather, forgather, collect, congregate, congress, crowd, fall in with, flock, gather, gather up, group, herd, league, mass, meet, meet up, muster, pack, press, team, team up, thring, throng, thrutch
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
come together, usually for a purpose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
History
Etymology
The adjective is first attested in 1400–1450, in Middle English, the verb c. 1513; from Middle English congregat(e) (“(of people) banded together; (of liquids) accumulated; (of muscles) contracted; (of wounds) closed up”), borrowed from Latin congregātus, perfect passive participle of congregō (“to congregate”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3), from con- (“with, together”) + gregō (“to collect into a flock”), from grex (“flock, herd”). See gregarious and egregious. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: струпвам (strupvam) — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- Catalan: congregar — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- Galician: congregar — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- German: ansammeln — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- German: versammeln — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- Interlingua: congregar — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- Māori: popō — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- Portuguese: congregar — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- Russian: собира́ть (sobirátʹ) — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- Spanish: congregar — To collect into an assembly or assemblage
- Azerbaijani: yığışmaq — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Bulgarian: събирам се (sǎbiram se) — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Bulgarian: струпвам се (strupvam se) — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Cherokee: ᎠᎾᏓᏟᏏᎭ (anadatlisiha) — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Finnish: kokoontua — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Finnish: kerääntyä — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- German: zusammenkommen — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (gaqiman) — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Interlingua: congregar se — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Māori: hui — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Māori: huihui — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Māori: popō — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Māori: whakamine — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Māori: whakaopeti — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Māori: ikapahi — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Māori: kāpunipuni — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Portuguese: congregar — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Quechua: huñunakuy — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Russian: собира́ться (sobirátʹsja) — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Spanish: congregarse — To come together; to assemble; to meet
- Unami: maèhëla — To come together; to assemble; to meet