assembly

B2 Topic:People & Society

US /əˈsɛmb.li/ UK /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/ See IPA manual

Freq #6567

Meanings

1

noun
A group of people who gather together for a shared purpose.

The whole school attended the morning assembly.
2

noun
The act of fitting parts together to make something.

The kit comes with clear instructions for assembly.
3

noun
An official group of people elected to make decisions or laws.

The United Nations General Assembly met to discuss the crisis.
4

noun
A set of parts that fit together to form a single working unit.

You have to remove the whole gearbox assembly to fix it.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a group of people who... gathering assemblage

2 noun · the act of fitting parts... fabrication

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Word family

Forms assemblies

Derived forms assemblymanassemblymemberassemblyosomeassemblypersonassemblywomanautoassemblybioassemblycoassemblydisassemblyinterassemblymacroassemblymicroassembly

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Etymology

From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.

assemblee Middle English asemblee Old French

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# assembly

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /əˈsɛmb.li/
**IPA (UK):** /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/
**Frequency rank:** 6567

## Meanings
1. A group of people who gather together for a shared purpose.
2. The act of fitting parts together to make something.
3. An official group of people elected to make decisions or laws.
4. A set of parts that fit together to form a single working unit.

## Examples
- The whole school attended the morning assembly.
- The kit comes with clear instructions for assembly.
- The United Nations General Assembly met to discuss the crisis.
- You have to remove the whole gearbox assembly to fix it.

## Synonyms
- church

## Derived Forms
- assemblyman
- assemblymember
- assemblyosome
- assemblyperson
- assemblywoman
- autoassembly
- bioassembly
- coassembly
- disassembly
- interassembly
- macroassembly
- microassembly

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: assemblee
- Root: asemblee

## Etymology
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.

## AI Etymology
Assembly is from Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble plus -y. The formation is semantically transparent: the parts remain visible, while the compound or affix fixes the grammatical role and narrows the modern meaning. In use as a noun, assembly denotes a group of people who gather together for a shared purpose, the act of fitting parts together to make something, and an official group of people elected to make decisions or laws. The same word family continues in derived forms such as assemblyman, assemblymember, assemblyosome, and assemblyperson.

## Topics
- People & Society

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