Thesaurus results for ASSEMBLY

assembly

noun

ə-ˈsem-blē

Definition of assembly

as in assemblage

a body of people come together in one place the usual assembly of early morning commuters waiting at the train station

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as in congregation

a body of persons gathered for religious worship the preacher addressed the assembly in somber tones

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as in meeting

a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose attendance at the awards assembly is mandatory

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Recent Examples of assembly Management intends for this centralized assembly method to establish a standardized production system for future units. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026 Unfortunately, photographs and footage from the 1976 ceremony are not clear enough to read the serial or part numbers off the arm assembly, and no one at the museum seems to remember or know which model the arm came from (if any). — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026 Alysa Guffey More than 50 people gathered in 90-degree heat to protest welcoming data centers to Indianapolis before packing the public assembly room on the second floor of the City-County Building. — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 2 July 2026 The San Jose Police Department has declared an unlawful assembly and in the name of the People of the State of California, order all those assembled at Santa Clara St and Almaden Ave to immediately disperse, which means to break up this assembly. — Tim Fang, CBS News, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for assembly

Recent Examples of Synonyms for assembly

Noun

Music director Eun Sun Kim leads the huge complement of musicians, an orchestral assemblage that required an expansion of the pit when the opera was first performed here in 1938.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
Who could forget the countless iterations of her squad, after all, the varied assemblages of laughing friends, mostly women, featuring in Swift’s Fourth of July carousels and birthday tributes and more through the years?

— Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026

Definition of assemblage

Noun

And at times members of the congregation thank her and others for casting aside those anxieties and keeping this place going.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
The Zion Church is among the largest churches that are unregistered with the Chinese authorities, defying restrictions from the officially atheist Communist Party requiring believers to worship only in registered congregations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026

Definition of congregation

Noun

An explosion went off near the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus on Tuesday, where French President Emmanuel Macron had spent the night ahead of a meeting with his Syrian counterpart, according to French and Syrian media.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
The build-up to this meeting has been tense, with defense spending remaining a contentious topic.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 7 July 2026

Definition of meeting

Noun

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department During the news conference, Bluthenthal's two children delivered a plea for justice via video, while his mother spoke directly to the crowd.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 1 July 2026
And oncology conferences are beginning to include sessions on hormones and how to help women after cancer.

— Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 30 June 2026

Definition of conference

Noun

So, Galetto was delighted to learn that the first American pope would be speaking live and receiving an award less than two miles from his church, on the eve of the nation’s 250th birthday.

— Danny Freeman, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
Parishioners at Saint Agnes said they were saddened by the schism and would continue to pray for a united church.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026

Definition of church

Noun

Political conventions are typically massive gatherings reserved for presidential election years, where parties formally nominate their candidates for the general election.

— Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 1 July 2026
See how designer Hattie Sparks Collins gave her in-laws' new build to a sunny dose of gathering-place nostalgia.

— Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 30 June 2026

Definition of gathering

Noun

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night and Good Luck, The Ides of March, and Suburbicon are examples of films that are refined, ambitious, and outside the rules and conventions of Hollywood cinema.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 July 2026
Beltran regularly appears at Star Trek conventions and used to get in fights on Twitter.

— Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 4 July 2026