Assembly Definition

ə-sĕmblē
assemblies
noun
assemblies
The act of assembling.
American Heritage
An assembling or being assembled.
Webster's New World
The state of being assembled.
American Heritage
A group of persons gathered together, as for worship, instruction, or entertainment.
Webster's New World
A group of persons gathered together for a common reason, as for a legislative, religious, educational, or social purpose.
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adjective
Designating or of a low-level computer language that uses words, abbreviations, etc. that are translated into machine language.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(US) The lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States, ("the Assembly").

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Other Word Forms of Assembly

Noun

Singular:
assembly
Plural:
assemblies

Origin of Assembly

  • From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée).

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Assembly Sentence Examples

  • The temper of this assembly was, however, wholly different.

  • In 1801 a "plan of union" proposed by the General Association (Congregational) of Connecticut was accepted by the General Assembly, and the work of home missions in the western section of the country was prosecuted jointly.

  • The general assembly meets once a year at the time and place agreed upon and appointed by its predecessor.

  • He was a member of the New York Assembly in 1759-1769, a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 until his death and as such a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and in1777-1778was a member of the first state senate.

  • The general assembly annually at its first meeting chooses one of its ministerial members as moderator.

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