say it: KAHNG-gruh-gayt
congregate is a verb meaning "come together, usually for a purpose". It carries one recorded sense.
come together, usually for a purpose
“The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for congregate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.