CONGREGATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they congregate ... he / she / it congregates

Past simple: congregated

Past participle: congregated

-ing form: congregating

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)

Credits

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.