gathering

[ gath-er-ing ]
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noun
  1. an assembly or meeting.

  2. an assemblage of people; group or crowd.

  1. a collection, assemblage, or compilation of anything.

  2. the act of a person or thing that gathers.

  3. something that is gathered together.

  4. a gather or a series of gathers in cloth.

  5. an inflamed and suppurating swelling.

  6. (in a flue, duct, or the like) a tapered section forming a transition between two sections, one of which has a greater area than the other.

  7. Bookbinding. a section in a book, usually a sheet cut into several leaves.

Origin of gathering

1
First recorded before 900; Middle English gaderinge, Old English gaderunge; equivalent to gather + -ing1

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British Dictionary definitions for gathering

gathering

/ (ˈɡæðərɪŋ) /


noun
  1. a group of people, things, etc, that are gathered together; assembly

  2. sewing a gather or series of gathers in material

    • the formation of pus in a boil

    • the pus so formed

  1. printing an informal name for section (def. 17)

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