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gatheringnoun a body of people come together in one placethe President spoke before the gathering of student leaders assemblage, assembly, conference, congregation, convocation, ingathering, meeting, muster company, consort, coterie, gang, packcaucus, forum, market, panel, rally, symposium, synodaudience, gallery, grandstand, housecrowd, flock, horde, legion, multitude, press, swarm, throngcrush, mob, rabble, rabblement a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purposeattended a gathering for descendants of people who came to America on the Mayflower assembly, congress, convention, convocation, council, get-together, huddle, meeting, powwow(informal, now offensive) clinic, workshopcabinet, caucus, conclave, synoddemonstration, rallyconfab, conversation, dialogue(also dialog), discourse, discussion, palaver, talknegotiation, parley, summitconference, forum, round-robin, roundtable, seminar, symposiumaudience, interview, session a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of timea great gathering of dust under the bed accretion, accumulation, assemblage, collection, cumulation, cumulus, lodgment(or lodgement), pileup agglomerate, assortment, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mélange, mishmash, mix, mixture, motley, potpourriagglomeration, clutter, hash, heap, litter, mass, pileaggregate, aggregation, sum, totalitybacklog, cache, fund, hoard, inventory, kitty, nest egg, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, supply gatheringverbpresent participle of gatherto bring together in one body or placehe gathered the leftovers from the table and gave them to the dog let's gather the students and have them line up on the playground before going in from recess accumulating, amassing, assembling, bulking (up), collecting, concentrating, congregating, constellating, corralling, garnering, grouping, lumping, picking up, rounding up balling, batching, bunching, clustering, huddlingheaping, piling, stackingbanding, brigading, mustering, raising, rallyingflocking, herding, hiving, packing, pressing, swarming, throngingcombining, connecting, joining, linking, merging, pooling, unitingarchiving, arranging, collating, compiling, organizing, systematizingscraping (up or together)re-collecting, regathering, regrouping getting together dispelling, dispersing, dissipating, scattering breaking up, disbanding, disintegrating, dissolving, separating, severing, splitting (up)dismissing, sending to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human uselate summer is when we gather the tomatoes and begin canning them for the winter harvesting, picking, reaping clamming, fishing, sealing, shrimping, whalingaccumulating, foraging, garneringgleaningcutting, haying, mowingbagging, capturing, hunting, netting, snaring, trappingcropping, growing, raising planting, seeding, sowing to come together into one body or placea crowd gathered around the street musician ask the faculty to gather in the lounge for the meeting assembling, clustering, collecting, concentering, concentrating, conglomerating, congregating, convening, converging, forgathering(or foregathering), meeting, rendezvousing affiliating, allying, associating, banding (together), caucusing, clubbing, collaborating, confederating, conjoining, consolidating, consorting, cooperating, coupling, federating, ganging up, joining, merging, unitingreassembling, reconvening, regathering, remeeting getting together breaking up, disbanding, dispersing, splitting (up) departing, leaving, taking offdisjoining, dissociating, disuniting to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and informationI gather that, since you are back so early, she didn't want to see you? concluding, deciding, deducing, deriving, extrapolating, inferring, judging, making out, reasoning, understanding assuming, supposingconjecturing, guessing, speculating, surmisingconstruing, interpreting, readingcontemplating, philosophizing, rationalizing, thinkingascertaining, doping (out), finding out drawing a conclusion to gradually form into a layer, pile, or massthe newspapers that had been allowed to gather on the front doorstep told thieves that the family was away on vacation accreting, accumulating, amassing, building up, collecting, concentrating, conglomerating, massing, piling (up), stacking (up) agglutinating, clumping, lumpingbanking, drifting, ridging dispersing, dissipating, scattering to gradually increase inthe movement gathered force as election day neared building up, gaining, growing (in), picking up doubling (in), tripling (in)accruing, accumulating, amassingexciting, stimulatingenhancing, enlarging, enriching, expanding, extending, maximizingboosting, elevating, jacking (up), mounting, ramping (up), stepping up decreasing (in), losing abating, declining (in), diminishing (in), dipping, dwindling, falling (in), lessening, tapering, tapering off to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powersgathered the strength to finish the marathon conjuring (up), getting up, summoning educing, eliciting, evoking, raising before the 12th century |