Meaning

A meeting or get-together; a party or social function..

Definitions by Sense

1. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
2. A group of people or things.
3. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
4. A charitable contribution; a collection.
5. (uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
6. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
7. present participle and gerund of gather
8. That gathers together.

Example Sentences

I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.

a gathering of Catholics

This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.

The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.

She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.

On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.

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Use gathering when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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