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Type Words
Synonyms gathering
Type of aggregation, assembling, collection, collecting
Has types harvest, harvest home, harvesting, centralization, centralisation
Type Words
Synonyms assemble, foregather, forgather, meet
Type of interact
Has types turn out, aggroup, caucus, club, clump, cluster, congregate, constellate, convene, converge, crowd, crowd together, flock, fort, fort up, group, hive, meet
Verb group come across, run into, meet, run across, see, encounter
Derivation gathering


Let's gather in the dining room.
Type Words
Synonyms collect, garner, pull together
Has types oyster, nut, nest, rake, pluck, muster up, glean, bird-nest, harvest, heap up, birdnest, hive, muster, mobilize, summon, mobilise, marshal, clam, stack up, club, sponge, snail, pile up, come up, pick, shock, scavenge, salvage, round up, reap, rally, cull, pearl


gather some stones.
Type Words
Synonyms gain
Type of increase


the car gathers speed.
Type Words
Synonyms assemble, get together
Has types make
Derivation gathering


gather the close family members.
Type Words
Synonyms gathering
Type of sewing, stitchery
Type Words
Synonyms pucker, tuck
Type of stitch, sew together, run up, sew
Derivation gathering
Type Words
Synonyms accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up
Type of increase
Has types backlog, accrete, drift
Derivation gathering
Type Words
Type of conclude, reason, reason out


I gather you have not done your homework.
Type Words
Type of pull


she gathered her shawl around her shoulders.
Type Words
Type of look for, seek, search
Has types shell
Derivation gatherer


Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall.

Examples of gather

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Moore could have used his Article 32 hearing to gather evidence for his defense.
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Then I had to figure out how I was going to gather recipes and people's stories.
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World leaders will gather at the convention center next to the Toronto ballpark.
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David Hanna, left, helps Larry Schmitt gather decoys after Saturday's teal hunt.
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Traversing Charlotte to gather all my family's food wants and needs is daunting.
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The cabdriver stopped the car, popped the trunk and helped me gather up my bags.
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Leaflets warn residents to gather in a single room if Marines enter their homes.
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Daily, kindergartners gather to listen to books, read aloud and discuss writing.
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Officials expect to gather DNA from the other two victims by the end of October.
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More examples
  • Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
  • Assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
  • The act of gathering something
  • Meet: collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room"
  • Accumulate: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
  • Conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework"
  • In knitting, a gather is a generic term for several methods that draw stitches closer together laterally, i.e., within a row of knitting. ...
  • Gathering is a sewing technique for shortening the length of a strip of fabric so that the longer piece can be attached to a shorter piece. ...
  • Gather or Gather.com is a social networking website designed to encourage interaction through various social, political and cultural topics. Its headquarters are in Boston, Massachusetts.