Associations to the word «Congregate»

Wiktionary

CONGREGATE, adjective. (rare) Collective; assembled; compact.
CONGREGATE, verb. (transitive): 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.
CONGREGATE, verb. (intransitive): To come together; to assemble; to meet.

Dictionary definition

CONGREGATE, verb. Come together, usually for a purpose; "The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats