- 1聚集、湊在一起
To come together in a place as a group. People congregate; sometimes animals do too. The word has a slightly official or news-report flavour — a school notice might say students must not congregate in the ; a reporter might say fans congregated outside the stadium. In everyday talk, gather, meet, or hang out is what most people actually say. Though actually it does not have to be a planned meeting with a leader. It is often just bodies collecting in one spot: teenagers at a convenience store, birds on a wire, workers by the gate at the end of the day. There is also an old adjective congregate, “gathered together,” but almost only meet the verb.
組成Latin con- (“together”) + gregō (“to collect into a flock”), from grex (“flock, herd”), plus English -ate. The picture inside the word is “to flock together.” The adjective is recorded in Middle English (1400–1450); the verb around 1513.
同家族的字
- gregarioussame Latin grex, a flock — a gregarious person likes being with the group
- egregiousfrom ex- + grex, originally “standing out from the flock”; now it means shockingly bad
- congregationthe group of people who have come together, especially in a church
- segregateLatin se- (“apart”) + grex — to keep a group away from the rest of the flock
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
congregateverb/ˈkɒŋɡɹəɡeɪt/
- 1
To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to bring into one place, or into a united body.
- Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
- The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas.
- 2
To come together; to assemble; to meet.
- Even there where merchants most do congregate.
congregateadj/ˈkɒŋɡɹəɡət/
- 1
obsoleteCongregated.
- VVith all the Gods about him congregate:
- 2
obsoleteChristianityCongregated (organized on a congregational basis).
- congregate churches
- 3
rareCollective; assembled; compact.
- With this reservation, therefore, we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human philosophy is either simple and particular, or conjugate and civil.
congregatenoun/ˈkɒŋɡɹəɡət/
- 1
obsoleteAssembled persons.
- That the congregates may frankelie shew their minds upon such matters as are to come before them.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。