CONGREGATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does congregating mean? 

• CONGREGATING (noun)
  The noun CONGREGATING has 1 sense:

1. the act of congregating

  Familiarity information: CONGREGATING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONGREGATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of congregating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

congregating; congregation

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

assemblage; assembly; gathering (the social act of assembling)

Derivation:

congregate (come together, usually for a purpose)

 Context examples 

Thanks to a rarely seen confluence of happy planets congregating in Capricorn, your fifth house of truelove, this month could be your most glorious of 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Some of these, congregating about the inn-yard while we changed horses, told us of great sheets of lead having been ripped off a high church-tower, and flung into a by-street, which they then blocked up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)