Definitions for congeries

congeries con·ge·ries

Spelling: [kon-jeer-eez, kon-juh-reez]
IPA: /kɒnˈdʒɪər iz, ˈkɒn dʒə riz/

Congeries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 482 anagrams from letters in congeries (ceeginors).

Definitions for congeries

noun

  1. a collection of items or parts in one mass; assemblage; aggregation; heap:

Origin of congeries

1610-20; Latin: a heap, equivalent to conger- (stem of congerere to collect, heap up, equivalent to con- con- + gerere to bear, carry) + -iēs noun suffix; cf.

Examples for congeries

Tim and his congeries hate the clerics, but they fear the flagellum.

Emerson, it is to be feared, regarded a company of books but as a congeries of ideas.

Scripture is not a congeries of earth-born fragments, but an organism, pulsating with divine life.

The right novel is never a congeries of novelle, as might appear to the uninspired.

Inside the congeries of glazed houses he was somewhat at sea.

A substance is known to us only as a congeries of attributes.

Our lives are a congeries of solipsisms, out of which in strict logic only a God could compose a universe even of discourse.

To speak Johnsonically it is a congeries of inexplicable nonsense.

A boarding-house is a congeries of people who have come down.

I cannot imagine such a congeries of blunders as a war for the Poles.

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