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forgather

American  
[fawr-gath-er] / fɔrˈgæð ər /

verb (used without object)

  1. to gather together; convene; assemble.

  2. to encounter someone, especially by chance.


forgather British  
/ fɔːˈɡæðə /

verb

  1. a variant spelling of foregather

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of forgather

First recorded in 1505–15; for- + gather

Example Sentences

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Hundreds of them were flown in from Moscow to forgather in East Berlin's grim, hulking Ministry of the Interior, the headquarters of the nation's vast security-police network.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wherever workers forgather, you may hear someone relate how he told the boss where to get off.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, it's perfectly clear That there's change when the critics forgather.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of its inmates one half are American, a quarter German, and the other quarter English, such as not the most rabidly social mind can wish to forgather with.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

Scores of birds forgather there—rosy starlings, mynas, babblers, bulbuls, king-crows, tree-pies, green parrots, sunbirds and crows.

From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas

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