- present participle of gather.
gathering
Americannoun
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an assembly or meeting.
- Synonyms:
- assemblage
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an assemblage of people; group or crowd.
- Synonyms:
- throng, company, concourse, congregation
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a collection, assemblage, or compilation of anything.
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the act of a person or thing that gathers.
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something that is gathered together.
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an inflamed and suppurating swelling.
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(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.
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Bookbinding. a section in a book, usually a sheet cut into several leaves.
noun
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a group of people, things, etc, that are gathered together; assembly
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sewing a gather or series of gathers in material
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the formation of pus in a boil
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the pus so formed
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printing an informal name for section
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gathering
First recorded before 900; Middle English gaderinge, Old English gaderunge; equivalent to gather + -ing 1
Vocabulary lists containing gathering
Example Sentences
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Gathering in large groups became forbidden in Druzhkivka.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Gathering public input is fundamental to the legitimacy of regulatory agencies.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Gathering to enjoy shared laughter is not only nothing new, experts say, it is likely to be pre-human.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
Other topics mentioned included Vance’s fandom of Magic: The Gathering, his opinions on cargo shorts, his “dad icks,” his preferred memes, and his “secret to keeping his marriage solid.”
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025
Gathering from the slopes were tiny moving figures, now in the open, now lost in shadow.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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