ASSEMBLAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assemblage mean? 

• ASSEMBLAGE (noun)
  The noun ASSEMBLAGE has 4 senses:

1. a group of persons together in one place

2. a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose

3. the social act of assembling

4. several things grouped together or considered as a whole

  Familiarity information: ASSEMBLAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSEMBLAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of persons together in one place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

assemblage; gathering

Hypernyms ("assemblage" is a kind of...):

social group (people sharing some social relation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assemblage"):

building (the occupants of a building)

carload (a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile)

contingent (a gathering of persons representative of some larger group)

floor (the occupants of a floor)

pair (two people considered as a unit)

room (the people who are present in a room)

threesome; triad; trinity; trio (three people considered as a unit)

turnout (the group that gathers together for a particular occasion)

foursome; quartet; quartette (four people considered as a unit)

fivesome; quintet; quintette (five people considered as a unit)

sextet; sextette; sixsome (six people considered as a unit)

septet; septette; sevensome (seven people considered as a unit)

eightsome; octet; octette (eight people considered as a unit)

assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)

crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)

concourse; multitude; throng (a large gathering of people)

audience (a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance)

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)

municipality (people living in a town or city having local self-government)

cast; cast of characters; dramatis personae (the actors in a play)

class; course; form; grade (a body of students who are taught together)

class; year (a body of students who graduate together)

social affair; social gathering (a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship)

bunch; crew; crowd; gang (an informal body of friends)

group meeting; meeting (a formally arranged gathering)

covey (a small collection of people)

quorum (a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business)

mass meeting; rally (a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm)

commune (a body of people or families living together and sharing everything)

convocation (a group gathered in response to a summons)

fair (gathering of producers to promote business)

bevy (a large gathering of people of a particular type)

cortege; entourage; retinue; suite (the group following and attending to some important person)

camp (a group of people living together in a camp)

muster (a gathering of military personnel for duty)

rap group (a gathering of people holding a rap session)

rave-up (a raucous gathering)

table (a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game)

wine tasting (a gathering of people to taste and compare different wines)

Derivation:

assemble (collect in one place)

assemble (get people together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A system of components assembled together for a particular purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

assemblage; hookup

Hypernyms ("assemblage" is a kind of...):

system (instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity)

Derivation:

assemble (create by putting components or members together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The social act of assembling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

assemblage; assembly; gathering

Context example:

they demanded the right of assembly

Hypernyms ("assemblage" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assemblage"):

mobilisation; mobilization (act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action)

calling together; convocation (the act of convoking)

coming together; congress; meeting (the social act of assembling for some common purpose)

congregating; congregation (the act of congregating)

convening; convention (the act of convening)

concentration (bringing together military forces)

Derivation:

assemble (collect in one place)

assemble (get people together)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Several things grouped together or considered as a whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection

Hypernyms ("assemblage" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assemblage"):

procession (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation)

pharmacopoeia (a collection or stock of drugs)

string (a collection of objects threaded on a single strand)

wardrobe (collection of clothing belonging to one person)

wardrobe (collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company)

population; universe ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn)

armamentarium (the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine)

art collection (a collection of art works)

backlog (an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services))

battery (a collection of related things intended for use together)

block (a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit)

book; rule book (a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made)

book (a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game)

bottle collection (a collection of bottles)

bunch; caboodle; lot (any collection in its entirety)

coin collection (a collection of coins)

collage (any collection of diverse things)

content; contents ((usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something)

ensemble; tout ensemble (an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole)

corpus (a collection of writings)

crop (a collection of people or things appearing together)

tenantry (tenants of an estate considered as a group)

findings (a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes)

flagging (flagstones collectively)

flinders (bits and splinters and fragments)

pack (a complete collection of similar things)

deal; hand (the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time)

long suit (in a hand, the suit having the most cards)

herbarium (a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study)

stamp collection (a collection of stamps)

statuary (statues collectively)

sum; sum total; summation (the final aggregate)

agglomeration (a jumbled collection or mass)

gimmickry (a collection of gimmicks)

nuclear club (the nations possessing nuclear weapons)

agglomerate; cumulation; cumulus; heap; mound; pile (a collection of objects laid on top of each other)

mass (an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people))

combination (a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities)

congregation (an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together)

hit parade (a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind)

Judaica (materials relating to Judaism)

kludge (a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together))

library; program library; subroutine library ((computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use)

library (a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing)

mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)

biology; biota (all the plant and animal life of a particular region)

fauna; zoology (all the animal life in a particular region or period)

petting zoo (a collection of docile animals for children to pet and feed)

set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)

Victoriana (collection of materials of or characteristic of the Victorian era)

category; class; family (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)

job lot (a miscellaneous collection of things sold together)

bundle; package; packet; parcel (a collection of things wrapped or boxed together)

defence; defense; defense lawyers; defense team (the defendant and his legal advisors collectively)

prosecution (the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant)

planting (a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area)

signage (signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters))

GAAP; generally accepted accounting principles (a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures)

pantheon (all the gods of a religion)

Free World (anti-communist countries collectively)

Third World (underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively)

Europe (the nations of the European continent collectively)

Asia (the nations of the Asian continent collectively)

North America (the nations of the North American continent collectively)

Central America (the nations of Central America collectively)

South America (the nations of the South American continent collectively)

Oort cloud ((astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun)

galaxy (a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people))

extragalactic nebula; galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)

fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)

fleet (group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership)

fleet (group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership)

repertoire; repertory (a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule)

repertoire; repertory (the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation)

assortment; miscellanea; miscellany; mixed bag; mixture; motley; potpourri; salmagundi; smorgasbord; variety (a collection containing a variety of sorts of things)

batch; clutch (a collection of things or persons to be handled together)

batch (all the loaves of bread baked at the same time)

rogue's gallery (a collection of pictures of criminals)

exhibition; expo; exposition (a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display)

convoy (a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships)

traffic (the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time)

air power; aviation (the aggregation of a country's military aircraft)

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

menagerie (a collection of live animals for study or display)

data; information (a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn)

ana (a collection of anecdotes about a person or place)

mail; post (any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered)

treasure (a collection of precious things)

treasure trove (any collection of valuables that is discovered)

trinketry (trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively)

troponomy; troponymy (the place names of a region or a language considered collectively)

smithereens (a collection of small fragments considered as a whole)

Instance hyponyms:

Nag Hammadi; Nag Hammadi Library (a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism)

Magi; Wise Men ((New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them)

Derivation:

assemble (create by putting components or members together)

 Context examples 

The assemblage of traits or outward appearance of an individual.

(Phenotype, NCI Thesaurus)

But I was perfectly unacquainted with towns and large assemblages of men.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A series of objects linked, connected, or associated together in linear fashion (e.g., the assemblage of atoms, radicals and chemical groups in a chemical compound, or an assemblage of individual microorganisms).

(Chain, NCI Thesaurus)

The new fossil assemblage lends credence to a scenario the scientists call the "Out of Tibet" hypothesis.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

An assemblage of not less than a hundred thousand people was waiting.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he spoke several of the beasts caught sight of him, and at once the great assemblage hushed as if by magic.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In the centre of this vast assemblage the lists seemed but a narrow strip of green marked out with banners and streamers, while a gleam of white with a flutter of pennons at either end showed where the marquees were pitched which served as the dressing-rooms of the combatants.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The approach of sunset was so very beautiful, so grand in its masses of splendidly-coloured clouds, that there was quite an assemblage on the walk along the cliff in the old churchyard to enjoy the beauty.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat, with little pockets of holland (shaped something like a Highlander's purse) tied in front of their frocks, and destined to serve the purpose of a work-bag: all, too, wearing woollen stockings and country-made shoes, fastened with brass buckles.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We passed rapidly along; the sun was hot, but we were sheltered from its rays by a kind of canopy while we enjoyed the beauty of the scene, sometimes on one side of the lake, where we saw Mont Salêve, the pleasant banks of Montalègre, and at a distance, surmounting all, the beautiful Mont Blanc, and the assemblage of snowy mountains that in vain endeavour to emulate her; sometimes coasting the opposite banks, we saw the mighty Jura opposing its dark side to the ambition that would quit its native country, and an almost insurmountable barrier to the invader who should wish to enslave it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)