- present participle of gather.
gathering
Americannoun
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gatherings
plural
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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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Soon the Justices might be gathering for oral argument in Trump v.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Phil music director, remains the Bowl, a fabulous gathering place but one of musical compromises along with exaltation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
McCartney said passengers had completed the normal departure process on Saturday night, collecting their boarding passes and gathering at the gate before the flight was called off after more than two hours of delays.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Also in focus is this week's annual gathering of central bankers, economists and finance chiefs in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where the Federal Reserve's boss Kevin Warsh is due to speak.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
I kept following him through his quest, gathering resources and killing random creatures that attacked us.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
They had understood the audition call to be the kind of secret code that gay men used to organize their gatherings, but in this case there really is a play to perform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The UN's annual climate gatherings rotate among regional blocs.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
For Matt, who says he has already tried therapy to treat his social anxiety, what began as a way to get through nights out now extends to dates and family gatherings.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The excerpt below is a scene from a dinner party in which one character launches into a riff about the pervasiveness of Yotam Ottolenghi’s cookbook recipes at social gatherings.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
Certainly, after my mother died, he didn’t seem to want to go to the gatherings anymore.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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