gregarious

English

WOTD – 28 October 2008

From Latin gregārius.

gregarious (comparative more gregarious, superlative most gregarious)

(of a person) Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
(zoology) Of animals that travel in herds or packs.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 151:
  The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters.
- 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down
  Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.
(botany) Growing in open clusters or colonies; not matted together.
Pertaining to a flock or crowd.

of a person who enjoys being in crowds

Bulgarian: общителен (bg) (obštitelen)
Catalan: gregari (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 社交的 (zh) (shèjiāo de), 喜爱社交的
Czech: družný, společenský (cs)
Danish: selskabelig c, selskabeligt n, selskabelige c pl or n pl
Dutch: gezellig (nl), sociaal (nl), gregarieus, uitgaand (nl)
Esperanto: grega
Finnish: seurallinen
French: sociable (fr)
Galician: social m or f
German: gesellig (de)
Greek: κοινωνικός (el) (koinonikós)
Hungarian: társaságot kedvelő
Indonesian: suka bergaul
Italian: socievole (it)
Japanese: 社交的な (ja) (しゃこうてきな, shakōteki na)
Korean: 사교적인 (ko) (sagyojeog-in)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: selskapelig
Nynorsk: selskapeleg, selskapleg
Persian: معاشرتی‎ (fa) (mo'âšerati)
Portuguese: gregário (pt)
Romanian: sociabil (ro)
Russian: общи́тельный (ru) m (obščítelʹnyj), коммуника́бельный (ru) m (kommunikábelʹnyj), конта́ктный (ru) m (kontáktnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: greigheach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: друштвен
Roman: društven (sh)
Spanish: sociable (es)
Swedish: sällskaplig (sv)
Turkish: sosyal (tr)
Welsh: cymdeithasgar

of animals that travel in herds