congregate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: con=gre=gate
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

congregate, 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.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

congregate, v. t. 

 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.  [1913 Webster]
"Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church."  [1913 Webster]
"Cold congregates all bodies."  [1913 Webster]
"The great receptacle
Of congregated waters he called Seas."  [1913 Webster]

congregate, v. i. 

 To come together; to assemble; to meet.  [1913 Webster]
"Even there where merchants most do congregate."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

congregate, v.intr. & tr. collect or gather into a crowd or mass.

Etymology

ME f. L congregare (as com-, gregare f. grex gregis flock)

THESAURUS

congregate

assemble, bunch, bunch up, clot, cluster, collect, come together, congress, converge, copulate, couple, crowd, date, flock together, flow together, forgather, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, herd together, hive, horde, huddle, league, link, mass, meet, merge, mill, muster, raise, rally, rally around, rendezvous, seethe, stream, surge, swarm, teem, throng, unite

ROGET THESAURUS

congregate

Assemblage

VB assemble, collect, muster, meet, unite, join, rejoin, cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate, congregate, conglomerate, concentrate, precipitate, center round, rendezvous, resort, come together, flock get together, pig together, forgather, huddle, reassemble, assemble, muster, bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together, collect, collocate, colligate, get, whip in, gather, hold a meeting, convene, convoke, convocate, rake up, dredge, heap, mass, pile, pack, put up, truss, cram, acervate, agglomerate, aggregate, compile, group, aggroup, concentrate, unite, collect into a focus, bring into a focus, amass, accumulate, collect in a dragnet, heap Ossa upon Pelion.