Definitions for gregarious
grɪˈgɛər i əsgre·gar·i·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. gregariousadjective

   (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species

   "gregarious bird species"

2. gregariousadjective

   instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others

   "he is a gregarious person who avoids solitude"

3. gregariousadjective

   (of plants) growing in groups that are close together

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. gregariousadjective

   Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.

2. gregariousadjective

   Of animals that travel in herds or packs.

3. Etymology: From gregarius.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gregariousadjective

   Going in flocks or herds, like sheep or partridges.

   Etymology: gregarius, Latin.

   No birds of prey are gregarious. John Ray, on the Creation.

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1. gregarious

   Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies. Sociality is a survival response to evolutionary pressures. For example, when a mother wasp stays near her larvae in the nest, parasites are less likely to eat the larvae. Biologists suspect that pressures from parasites and other predators selected this behavior in wasps of the family Vespidae. This wasp behaviour evidences the most fundamental characteristic of animal sociality: parental investment. Parental investment is any expenditure of resources (time, energy, social capital) to benefit one's offspring. Parental investment detracts from a parent's capacity to invest in future reproduction and aid to kin (including other offspring). An animal that cares for its young but shows no other sociality traits is said to be subsocial. An animal that exhibits a high degree of sociality is called a social animal. The highest degree of sociality recognized by sociobiologists is eusociality. A eusocial taxon is one that exhibits overlapping adult generations, reproductive division of labor, cooperative care of young, and—in the most refined cases—a biological caste system.

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1. gregarious

   Gregarious refers to the quality of enjoying the company of others; sociable. It can also refer to animals or plants that live or grow in groups or clusters.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.7 / 3 votes

1. Gregariousadjective

   habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone

2. Etymology: [L. gregarius, fr. grex, gregis, herd; cf. Gr. to assemble, Skr. jar to approach. Cf. Congregate, Egregious.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Gregarious

   gre-gā′ri-us, adj. associating or living in flocks and herds.—adj. Gregā′rian.—n. Gregā-rianism.—adv. Gregā′riously.—n. Gregā′riousness. [L. gregarius—grex, gregis, a flock.]

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gregarious

   living in societies or communities; but not social.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gregarious in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gregarious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of gregarious in a Sentence

1. Gary Parker:

   Now, it’s amazing— he stands up and holds his head up straight, in Sambany’s case, I didn’t know what kind of person he is. It turns out he should probably run for office: He’s gregarious, and laughs and shakes people’s hands, and [is] a really nice guy. But you’d never know this because seeing him with this giant mass was kind of frightening, and he couldn’t do much more than just try to get through the day.

2. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

   Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

3. Northrop Frye:

   The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

4. Thomas Mann:

   A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

5. Walt Frazier:

   He was effervescent, gregarious, with an infectious personality not only endearing to his teammates but the Knicks Nation as well.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gregarious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gregarious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=gregarious
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregarious
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gregarious
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=gregarious
8. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=gregarious