gathering
noun
[ ˈɡað(ə)rɪŋ ]
• an assembly or meeting, especially one held for a specific purpose.
• "a family gathering"
Similar:
assembly,
meeting,
meet,
convention,
rally,
turnout,
congress,
convocation,
conclave,
council,
synod,
symposium,
forum,
muster,
tweetup,
assemblage,
collection,
company,
congregation,
audience,
crowd,
throng,
mass,
multitude,
group,
party,
band,
knot,
flock,
mob,
horde,
pack,
get-together,
concourse,
conventicle,
• a group of leaves taken together, one inside another, in binding a book.
gather
verb
• come together; assemble or accumulate.
• "as soon as a crowd gathered, the police came"
Similar:
congregate,
convene,
assemble,
meet,
collect,
come/get together,
muster,
rally,
converge,
cluster together,
crowd,
mass,
flock together,
foregather,
• bring together and take in from scattered places or sources.
• "information that we have gathered about people"
Similar:
collect,
get together,
put together,
accumulate,
amass,
assemble,
garner,
store,
stockpile,
heap up,
pile up,
stack up,
hoard,
put by,
put away,
lay by,
lay in,
set aside,
stash away,
squirrel away,
• increase in (speed, force, etc.).
• "the destroyer gathered speed"
• infer; understand.
• "I gathered that they were old friends"
Similar:
understand,
be given to understand,
believe,
be led to believe,
think,
conclude,
come to the conclusion,
deduce,
infer,
draw the inference,
assume,
surmise,
fancy,
take it,
hear,
hear tell,
be informed,
notice,
see,
learn,
discover,
• summon up (a mental or physical attribute) for a purpose.
• "she lay gathering her thoughts together"
Similar:
summon,
summon up,
call together,
bring together,
assemble,
convene,
rally,
round up,
collect,
muster,
marshal,
organize,
convoke,
• draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it.
• "the front is gathered at the waist"
Similar:
pleat,
shirr,
pucker,
tuck,
fold,
corrugate,
ruffle,
crimp,
crease,
scrunch up,
Origin:
Old English gaderian, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaderen, also to together.
