Definition: congregate

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

congregate
     adj : brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated
           letters in my office" [syn: accumulated, amassed, assembled,
            collected, massed]
     v : move together [syn: gather, collect]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, 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. [R.] --Bacon.
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Congregated; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Congregating]
   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.

         Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be
         termed by the name of a church.          --Hooker.

         Cold congregates all bodies.             --Coleridge.

         The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called
         Seas.                                    --Milton.
Congregate \Con"gre*gate\, v. i.
   To come together; to assemble; to meet.

         Even there where merchants most do congregate. --Shak.