gathering

[gath-er-ing]

noun

1. an assembly or meeting.

   Synonyms: assemblage

2. an assemblage of people; group or crowd.

   Synonyms: throng, company, concourse, congregation

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

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

5. something that is gathered together.

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

7. an inflamed and suppurating swelling.

   Synonyms: carbuncle, abscess, boil

8. (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.

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

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

3. 1. the formation of pus in a boil

   2. the pus so formed

4. printing an informal name for section

Word History and Origins

Origin of gathering¹

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

Example Sentences

Indeed, gathering disparate genres, styles and niches in one place was what made this scene unique.

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Styles said within a year or two of starting his barbershop, they’d started having issues with homeless people gathering in front of the business.

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I’ll be serving it as a side for more than one holiday gathering.

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After a big domestic gathering, I prefer a few hours by myself to wind down.

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“Someone always gets forgotten or invites you to a last-minute gathering,” she told MarketWatch.

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Related Words

• association 
• caucus 
• collection 
• conclave 
• conference 
• congregation 
• convention 
• crowd 
• function 
• group 
• mass 
• meeting 
• party 
• throng