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congeries

UK/ˈkɒndʒəɹiːz//ˈkɑːnd͡ʒəɹiːz/

congeries noun: a collection or aggregation of disparate items.

Noun

congeries (plural congeries)

  1. A collection or aggregation of disparate items.
    • And when the Newtonian philosophy gained ground in Europe, it was the opinion of Cotes rather than that of Newton that became most prevalent, till at last Boscovich propounded his theory, that matter is a congeries of mathematical points...1876, James Clerk Maxwell, “On Action at a Distance”, in Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
    • The world has seen the postal system developed from a congeries of independent and exclusive services into a well-ordered union, of which all countries enjoy the manifold benefits.1898, William McKinley, Second State of the Union Address

congeries meaning in Urdu and Arabic

congeries in Urdu

مجمع

congeries in Arabic

A collection or aggregation of disparate items
كَوْمَةٌ kawmatun

Examples of congeries in a sentence

  • By short cuts known to him, he made his way now through the vast congeries of rooms and staircases to the banqueting-hall, five acres distant on the other side of the house.1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no....
  • They swept away a loessial cover more than 100 feet thick from 80 square miles of summit area and scored the basalt thus exposed into a congeries of canyons, cataracts, and rock basin.1969 September, J. Harlen Bretz, “The Lake Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scabland”, in The Journal of Geology, volume 77, number 5...
  • The three of them could hardly tell themselves apart, became a sort of congeries of loving emotions, all mutually complementary.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 40:
  • That whole congeries of values was now in question.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 243:

Forms of congeries

pluralcongeries

Origin of congeries

Borrowed from Latin congeriēs (“a heap, mass, pile”), from congerō (“to carry together, heap”).

Questions about congeries

What does congeries mean?
Congeries means a collection or aggregation of disparate items.
What is congeries in Urdu?
Congeries in Urdu is مجمع. See Congeries meaning in Urdu.
How do you use congeries in a sentence?
By short cuts known to him, he made his way now through the vast congeries of rooms and staircases to the banqueting-hall, five acres distant on the other side of the house.
What part of speech is congeries?
Congeries is a noun.
How do you pronounce congeries?
Congeries is pronounced /ˈkɒndʒəɹiːz/ (UK).
What is the plural of congeries?
The plural of congeries is congeries.

Words near congeries in the dictionary

  1. conger
  2. conger eel
  3. conger eels
  4. conger moray
  5. conger morays
  6. congeries
  7. congers
  8. Congerville
  9. conges
  10. congest
  11. congestable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: congeries (page history and authors); congeries (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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