conglomeration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=glom=er=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

conglomeration, n. [L. conglomeratio: cf. F. conglomeration.].

•  The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is conglomerated; a mixed mass; a hodgepodge.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

conglomeration

Anschluss, accretion, accumulation, acervation, addition, adherence, adhesion, affiliation, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, aggregation, agreement, all sorts, alliance, amalgamation, amassment, articulation, assemblage, assimilation, association, assortment, blend, blending, block, body, bond, bracketing, breccia, broad spectrum, bunch, cabal, cake, cartel, centralization, chunk, cling, clinging, clot, clotting, clump, cluster, clustering, coagulation, coalescence, coalition, coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness, collectanea, collection, colluvies, combination, combine, combo, communication, compaction, composition, concatenation, concourse, concrete, concretion, concurrence, condensation, confederacy, confederation, confluence, congealment, congelation, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conjugation, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, convergence, copulation, coupling, cumulation, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fusion, gallimaufry, gathering, glomeration, gob, hash, hoard, hodgepodge, hookup, hotchpot, hotchpotch, hunk, inclusion, incorporation, inseparability, integration, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, joinder, joining, jointure, jumble, junction, junta, knot, knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, lump, magpie, marriage, mash, mass, medley, meeting, melange, meld, melding, merger, merging, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mixture, node, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, package, package deal, pairing, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, potpourri, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, set, snowball, solid, solid body, solidification, splice, stew, sticking, stockpile, sundries, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, trove, unification, union, variety, wad, wedding, what you will, yoking

ROGET THESAURUS

conglomeration

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.