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con⋅gre⋅gate

  [v. kong-gri-geyt; adj. kong-gri-git, -geyt] verb, -gat⋅ed, -gat⋅ing, adjective
Use congregate in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to come together; assemble, esp. in large numbers: People waiting for rooms congregated in the hotel lobby.
–verb (used with object)
2. to bring together in a crowd, body, or mass; assemble; collect.
–adjective
3. congregated; assembled.
4. formed by collecting; collective.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME (adj.) < L congregātus (ptp. of congregāre to flock together), equiv. to con- con- + greg- (s. of grex) flock + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
con⋅gre⋅ga⋅tive, adjective
con⋅gre⋅ga⋅tive⋅ness, noun
con⋅gre⋅ga⋅tor, noun

Synonyms:
1. gather, collect, throng, cluster.
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con·gre·gate   (kŏng'grĭ-gāt')   
tr. & intr.v.   con·gre·gat·ed, con·gre·gat·ing, con·gre·gates
To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. See Synonyms at gather.
adj.   (-gĭt)

  1. Gathered; assembled.

  2. Involving a group: congregate living facilities for senior citizens.


[Middle English congregaten, from Latin congregāre, congregāt- : com-, com- + gregāre, to assemble (from grex, greg-, herd; see ger- in Indo-European roots).]
con'gre·ga'tive adj., con'gre·ga'tive·ness n., con'gre·ga'tor n.
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Word Origin & History

congregate 
c.1400, from L. congregatus, pp. of congregare "to herd together," from com- "together" + gregare "to collect into a flock, gather," from grex (gen. gregis) "a flock." Congregation is from c.1340, used by Tyndale to translate Gk. ekklesia in New Testament, and preferred by 16c. Reformers instead of church; hence the word's main modern sense of "local society of believers" (1526), and Congregational, the Protestant sect, from 1639.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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