Gathering

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The action of one that gathers.
  • n. That which is gathered or amassed; a collection or accumulation.
  • n. An assembly of persons; a meeting.
  • n. The collecting of food that grows wild, such as berries, roots, and grains.
  • n. A gather in cloth.
  • n. A suppurated swelling; a boil or abscess.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
  • n. A group of people or things.
  • n. A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
  • v. present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of collecting or bringing together.
  • n. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together.
  • n. A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
  • n. A charitable contribution; a collection.
  • n. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
  • adj. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of assembling, collecting, or making a collection, as of money.
  • n. That which is gathered together.
  • n. A crowd; an assembly; specifically, a concourse of spectators or participants for some purpose of common interest.
  • n. A collection or assemblage of anything; a contribution.
  • n. An inflamed and suppurating swelling.
  • n. A wooden construction about a scuttle in a roof.
  • n. In building, a contraction of any passage, as of a drain, or of a fireplace at its junction with the flue.
  • n. The act of making gathers, or of giving shape to a garment, as a skirt, by means of gathers.
  • n. In glass manufacturing, the act of coiling or collecting a mass of molten glass in the viscous state on the end of a rod or tube.
  • n. The collection in proper order of the folded sections, plates, or maps of an unbound book or pamphlet.
  • n. In agriculture, plowing back and forth around the crown of an existing ridge of land, thus turning all the furrow-slices inward and increasing the height of the ridge.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the social act of assembling
  • n. sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
  • n. a group of persons together in one place
  • n. the act of gathering something
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sewing    stitchery   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    crowd    assembly    congregation    collection    abscess    assembling    collecting   
    Verb Stem
    gather   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    slathering   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    banquet    assemblage    festivity    celebration    gather    festival    reunion    entertainment    picnic    get-together