English > congregate: 1 sense > verb 1, motion| Meaning | Come together, usually for a purpose. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
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| Model | The crowds congregate in the streets |
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| Example | "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve" |
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| Broader | meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather | Collect in one place |
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| Spanish | agruparse, concentrar, congregarse, congregar, reunirse, se congregan |
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| Catalan | aplegar, concentrar, congregar |
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| Nouns | congregation, congregating | the act of congregating |
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| congregation | a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church |
| congregation | an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together |