conglomerate

1. 1.

   a composite rock made up of particles of varying size

   Synonymspudding stone

   Broaderrock
2. 2.

   a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

   Synonymsempire

   Broadercorporation

   Narrowerpublishing conglomerate

1. 1.

   collect or gather

   “Journals are accumulating in my office”

   “The work keeps piling up”

   Synonymsaccumulatecumulatepile upgatheramass

   Broaderincrease

   Narrowerbacklogaccretedrift

1. 1.

   composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass

   “the conglomerate peoples of New England”

   Similarcombined

Other forms of conglomerate

plural

conglomerates·

past tense

conglomerated·

present participle

conglomerating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conglomerate

What does conglomerate mean?

conglomerate means "a composite rock made up of particles of varying size". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conglomerate?

conglomerate has 4 syllables: con-glo-me-rate. The stress falls on "glo". In IPA it is /kənˈɡlɑmɚət/.

What is another word for conglomerate?

Close synonyms include pudding stone, empire, accumulate, cumulate, pile up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conglomerate a common word?

conglomerate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.