Assemblage
[ə'semblɪdʒ] or [ə'sɛmblɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.
(n.) A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Collection, group, cluster, clump, mass, congeries, pack.[2]. Assembly, concourse, company, crowd, throng, congregation, gathering, meeting.
Typed by Annette
Examples
- Carriages and horses were provided for all; captains and under officers chosen, and the whole assemblage wisely organized. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As many of the present assemblage as choose. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As I halted before the officer, he addressed me in a voice audible to the entire assemblage of troops and spectators. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The procession has not started yet, but is waiting for the cause of its assemblage to be brought out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With a frightful roar the great beast sprang among the assemblage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The room was soon filled with a motley assemblage, from the old gray-headed patriarch of eighty, to the young girl and lad of fifteen. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was the most brilliant assemblage I had ever witnessed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- His well-proportioned figure was not to be mistaken, for I doubt whether there was another in that assemblage his equal. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Such is the assemblage of armorial bearings on coach panels that the Herald's College might be supposed to have lost its father and mother at a blow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Already it was filled, and filled with a splendid assemblage. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- On returning through the lane, I saw at a distance the same assemblage of persons which I had left. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- How in poor assemblage of words convey the halo of glory that surrounded her, the thousand graces that waited unwearied on her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Can the god of Jealousy himself find any fault with such an assemblage of good qualities? Plato. The Republic.
- There was an assemblage of persons under the portico of our house, in whose gestures I instinctively read some heavy change, some new misfortune. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But I was perfectly unacquainted with towns, and large assemblages of men. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Typist: Paul