English > congregate: 1 sense > verb 1, motionMeaning | 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 |