| Main Entry: | caucus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group gathered to make decision |
Synonyms: |
assembly, conclave, convention, council, gathering, get-together, meeting, parley, session |
| Main Entry: | congress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delegation of representatives |
Synonyms: |
assembly, association, caucus, chamber, club, committee, conclave, conference, convention, convocation, council, delegates, government, guild, league, legislative body, legislature, meeting, order, parliament, senate, society, the Hill, the house, union |
| Main Entry: | faction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group sharing a belief or cause |
Synonyms: |
band, bloc, bunch, cabal, camp, caucus, cell, circle, clan, clique, club, coalition, combination, combine, combo, concern, conclave, confederacy, conspiracy, contingent, coterie, crew, crowd, design, division, entente, gang, guild, insiders, intrigue, junta, knot, lobby, machine, minority, mob, network, offshoot, outfit, partnership, party, pressure group, ring, schism, sect, section, sector, set, side, splinter group, team, unit, wing |
| Notes: | a faction is a group of people forming a cohesive, usually contentious, minority from within a larger group; a fraction is a small part or item of something forming a piece of a whole |
Antonyms: |
entirety, total, whole |
| Main Entry: | gathering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assemblage, accumulation |
Synonyms: |
acquisition, affair, aggregate, aggregation, association, band, body, bunch, caucus, clambake, collection, company, concentration, conclave, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, crowd, crush, drove, flock, function, gain, get-together, group, heap, herd, horde, huddle, junction, knot, levy, mass, meet, meeting, muster, parley, party, pile, powwow, rally, roundup, social function, society, stock, stockpile, swarm, throng, turnout, union |
| Main Entry: | gathering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
accumulable, aggregable, agminate, all of a heap, allemang, as thick as hops, assembled, chockablock, closely packed, coacervate, crowded to suffocation, cumulative, dense, fasciculated, pily, populous, ramé, serried, styptic, swarming, teeming
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