assemblage

1 a body of people come together in one place an assemblage of onlookers at the construction site Synonyms gathering, assembly, conference, congregation, convocation, ingathering, meeting, musterRelated Words company, consort, coterie, gang, pack; caucus, forum, market, panel, rally, symposium, synod; audience, gallery, grandstand, house; crowd, flock, horde, legion, multitude, press, swarm, throng; crush, mob, rabble, rabblement

2 a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time tried to sort through the assemblage of ripped wrapping paper and boxes for the missing toy Synonyms accretion, accumulation, collection, cumulation, cumulus, gathering, lodgment (or lodgement), pileupRelated Words agglomerate, assortment, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mélange, mishmash, mix, mixture, motley, potpourri; agglomeration, clutter, hash, heap, litter, mass, pile; aggregate, aggregation, sum, totality; backlog, cache, fund, hoard, inventory, kitty, nest egg, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, supply

3 a number of things considered as a unit an assemblage of brass candlesticks on the table Synonyms array, group, band, bank, batch, battery, block, bunch, clot, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, constellation, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, muster, package, parcel, passel, set, suiteRelated Words accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomeration; agglomeration, assortment, hodgepodge, jumble, miscellany, mixture, odds and ends, sundries, variety; cycle, run, series, suitNear Antonyms entity, item, single, unit

4 an organized group of objects acquired and maintained for study, exhibition, or personal pleasure donated his assemblage of 18th-century miniature paintings to the museum Synonyms collection, libraryRelated Words assortment, kaleidoscope, miscellanea, mixed bag, omnium-gatherum, phantasmagoria, treasure, treasure trove, trove; arsenal, cache, hoard, repertoire, repertory, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, supply; accumulation, assembly, gatheringNear Antonyms bric-a-brac, clutter, heap, jumble, litter, pile, ragbag