Meanings
plural conglomerations
- countableuncountableThat which consists of many previously separate parts.
The green-purple conglomeration behaves nearly like a monospecific culture with characteristics halfway between those of the green and the purple, though metamorphosing more slowly than either[…]
1928, M. W. deLaubenfels, “Experiments concerning Cellular Behavior and Physiology of Sponges”, in Carnegie Institution Year Book No. 27, 1927-28, page 276; republished as Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection, volume 3045, University of California, 2009Synonyms: conglomerate
- countableuncountableAn instance of conglomerating, a coming together of separate parts.
1 more example
A sallow prisoner has come up, in custody, for the half-dozenth time to make a personal application "to purge himself of his contempt," which, being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge, he is not at all likely ever to do.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThat which consists of many previously separate parts.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
nounan occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian конгломерат
- конгломерат (konglomerat)that which consists of many previously separate parts
Chinese Mandarin 總會 /总会
- 總會 /总会 (zǒnghuì)that which consists of many previously separate parts
French conglomération
- conglomérationthat which consists of many previously separate parts
Italian conglomerato, conglomerazione
- conglomeratothat which consists of many previously separate parts
- conglomerazionethat which consists of many previously separate parts
Portuguese conglomerado, conglomeração
- conglomeradothat which consists of many previously separate parts
- conglomeraçãoan instance of conglomerating
Russian конгломера́т, конгломера́ция
- конгломера́т (konglomerát)that which consists of many previously separate parts
- конгломера́ция (konglomerácija)that which consists of many previously separate parts
Spanish conglomeración
- conglomeraciónthat which consists of many previously separate parts
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with conglomeration
Cite this entry
conglomeration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conglomeration
“conglomeration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conglomeration. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “conglomeration,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conglomeration.
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