gregarious

英 [grɪ'geərɪəs] 美 [grɪ'gɛrɪəs]

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※ 提供单词"gregarious"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

gregarious 合群的

来自PIE*ger, 集中，集会，词源同cram, crowd,

gregarious: gregarious: see segregate
gregarious (adj.): 1660s, "disposed to live in flocks" (of animals), from Latin gregarius "pertaining to a flock; of the herd, of the common sort, common," from grex (genitive gregis) "flock, herd," from PIE *gre-g-, reduplicated form of root *ger- (1) "to gather together, assemble" (cognates: Sanskrit gramah "heap, troop;" Greek ageirein "to assemble," agora "assembly;" Latin gremium "bosom, lap;" Old Church Slavonic grusti "handful," gramota "heap;" Lithuanian gurgulys "chaos, confusion," gurguole "crowd, mass"). Of persons, "sociable" first recorded 1789. Related: Gregariously; gregariousness.

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1. Holmes was gregarious, a great wit, a man of wide interests.: 福尔摩斯爱交际，非常风趣，兴趣广泛。

2. Rodney was a cheerful, elegant and gregarious if rather contentious man.: 罗德尼尽管非常喜欢与人争辩，却是个阳光、优雅、合群的人。