congeries

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.

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

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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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congeries - a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together conglomeration, aggregate 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"