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Definition of Gathering
1. Noun. A group of persons together in one place.
Generic synonyms: Social Group
Specialized synonyms: Building, Carload, Contingent, Floor, Pair, Room, Threesome, Triad, Trinity, Trio, Turnout, Foursome, Quartet, Quartette, Fivesome, Quintet, Quintette, Sextet, Sextette, Sixsome, Septet, Septette, Sevensome, Eightsome, Octet, Octette, Assembly, Crowd, Concourse, Multitude, Throng, Audience, Community, Municipality, Cast, Cast Of Characters, Dramatis Personae, Class, Course, Form, Grade, Class, Year, Social Affair, Social Gathering, Bunch, Crew, Crowd, Gang, Group Meeting, Meeting, Covey, Quorum, Mass Meeting, Rally, Commune, Convocation, Fair, Bevy, Cortege, Entourage, Retinue, Suite, Camp, Muster, Rap Group, Rave-up, Table, Wine Tasting
Derivative terms: Assemble, Assemble, Gather, Gather
2. Noun. The social act of assembling. "They demanded the right of assembly"
Generic synonyms: Group Action
Specialized synonyms: Mobilisation, Mobilization, Calling Together, Convocation, Coming Together, Meeting, Congregating, Congregation, Convening, Convention, Concentration
Derivative terms: Assemble, Assemble, Gather, Gather
Antonyms: Disassembly
3. Noun. The act of gathering something.
Generic synonyms: Aggregation, Assembling, Collecting, Collection
Specialized synonyms: Centralisation, Centralization, Harvest, Harvest Home, Harvesting
Derivative terms: Gather, Gather, Gather
4. Noun. Sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching.
Definition of Gathering
1. n. The act of collecting or bringing together.
2. a. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
Definition of Gathering
1. Noun. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function. ¹
2. Noun. A group of people or things. ¹
3. Noun. ((term bookbinding)) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half. ¹
4. Verb. present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gathering
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gathering
1. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. Gathering board, a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Gathering coal, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. Gathering hoop, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. Gathering peat. A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gathering
Literary usage of Gathering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"To avoid these evils, each gathering hule has its "boot," a rounded hood of ...
permits it to stand always at the same level there as in the gathering ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"582, 41 SE 992, It was held that "one who goes to a public gathering, having no
pistol upon his person at the time he arrives at the place where the ..."
3. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"XVII OF THE gathering IN THE MARKET-SQUARE THE fair town in which we now found
ourselves was, although Monmouth had not yet reached it, the real centre of ..."
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