| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A number of persons who have come or been gathered together: assemblage, assembly, body, company, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, crowd, gathering, group, meeting, muster. Informal : get-together. See COLLECT. 2. A group of people acting together in a shared activity: band2, company, corps, party, troupe. See PERFORMING ARTS. | | VERB: | 1. To be with as a companion: associate, consort, fraternize, hang around, hobnob, run (around). Slang : hang out. Idioms: rub elbows (or shoulders) . See NEAR. 2. To come or go in large numbers: flood, pour, swarm, throng. See BIG, MOVE.
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