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congeries

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con·ge·ries  (kn-jîrz, knj-rz)
n. (used with a sing. verb)
A collection; an aggregation: "Our city, it should be explained, is two cities, or morean urban mass or congeries divided by the river" (John Updike).

[Latin congeris, from congerere, to heap up; see congest.]

congeries [kɒnˈdʒɪəriːz]
n
(functioning as singular or plural) a collection of objects or ideas; mass; heap
[from Latin, from congerere to pile up, from gerere to carry]

Congeries a collection of particles, parts, or things; a heap; a group of things heaped together.
Examples: congeries of ballads; of furniture shops; of repugnant affections, 1619; of rocks, 1793; of dead and stupid matter, 1679; of towers, halls, churches, and chambers, 1875; of stars, 1849; of watery particles, 1725.
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Noun1.congeries - a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
plankton - the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
nekton - the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
sum total, summation, sum - the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered"
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congeries
n sing (liter)Konglomerat nt, → Ansammlung f, → Anhäufung f


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These very mirages are the unthinkable and incalculable congeries of appearances that crowd in upon you and form you out of the past, and that sweep you on into dissemination into other unthinkable and incalculable congeries of appearances to people the ghost land of the future.
The top floor at the Albany, as elsewhere, is devoted to the servants--a congeries of little kitchens and cubicles, used by many as lumber-rooms--by Raffles among the many.
 
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