conglomerate
conglomerate Lexical Profile
conglomerate Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A large corporation formed by the merger or acquisition of several distinct firms operating in diversified, often unrelated business sectors.
"The multinational media conglomerate owns television networks, publishing houses, and film studios."
A heterogeneous mixture, collection, orcoherent mass formed from disparate elements clustered together.
"Modern English is a rich conglomerate of Germanic, Romance, and classical Greek vocabulary."
A coarse-grained sedimentary rock composed of rounded, water-worn pebbles or boulders cemented together in a finer matrix of sand, silt, or natural mineral cement.
"Geologists examined the cliff face and identified a thick layer of conglomerate deposited by an ancient riverbed."
• adjective
Gathered into a rounded mass or consisting of heterogeneous parts clustered together.
"The ancient wall was built from conglomerate stone quarried in the nearby hills."
• verb
To collect, gather, or form into a coherent, rounded mass or composite cluster.
"Over time, the small independent workshops began to conglomerate into a single industrial enterprise."
Word Nuance & Usage
Like many words ending in '-ate', 'conglomerate' changes pronunciation depending on its part of speech: the noun and adjective end with an unstressed schwa (/kənˈɡlɒmərət/), whereas the verb ends with a long 'a' sound (/kənˈɡlɒməreɪt/).
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Latin 'conglomeratus', the past participle of 'conglomerare' ('to roll together'), formed from 'con-' ('together') and 'glomus' ('a ball of yarn or clew').