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con⋅gre⋅gate
[v. kong-gri-geyt; adj. kong-gri-git, -geyt] 
grɪˌgeɪt
verb, -gat⋅ed, -gat⋅ing, adjective –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. |
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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)
[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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Congregate
Con"gre*gate\, a. [L. congregatus, p. p. of congregare to congregate; on- + gregare to collect into a flock, fr. grex flock, herd. See Gregarious.] Collected; compact; close. [R.] --Bacon.Congregate
Con"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Congregated; p. pr. & vb. n. Congregating] 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. Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church. --Hooker. Cold congregates all bodies. --Coleridge. The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas. --Milton.Congregate
Con"gre*gate\, v. i. To come together; to assemble; to meet. Even there where merchants most do congregate. --Shak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : congregate
Spanish:
congregarse,
German:
sich versammeln,
Japanese:
集まる
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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