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Synonyms for assemble

Most common

gather meet join bring together piece tack together build

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To put together.

    He assembled the model ship.

  2. v. 2

    To gather as a group.

    The parents assembled in the school hall.

  3. v. 3

    To translate from assembly language to machine code.

Related words

Is a kind of
join

Forms

Past participle
assembled
e.g. assembled → gathered, joined, congregated, convened…

Choose the right word

Assemble, Convoke, Convene, Convoked or Assembles?

Convoke implies an organized body and a superior authority; assemble and convene express more independent action; Parliament is convoked; Congress assembles.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • gather You must gather your party before venturing forth.
  • convene They convene every evening at the library.
  • congregate In the winter the elk congregate on the golf course.
  • build It has taken forty-six years to build this temple.
  • collect How long did it take you to collect so many coins?

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
assemblesteady
gatherrising
convenefalling
congregatesteady
buildrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
make1, call1, meet1, hold1, join1, mass1, levy2, tack1
5 letters
group1, press1, piece1, build1, crowd1, rally2, flock1, amass2
6 letters
league1, gather2, muster2, throng1
7 letters
produce2, connect2, collect2, convene2
8 letters
congress2, engender3
9 letters
construct2, fabricate3
10 letters
congregate3
11 letters
concentrate3, manufacture4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (levy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
assembler
Italiano
congegnare
Español
montar