to gather around
70
1.9
- phrasal verb
- /ˈɡæðər əˈraʊnd/
:
reunirse en torno a
- Following the presentation, the kids go outside and gather around Jim's car.
- crowds gather around
- people gather around
- groups gather around
My whole family in the kitchen gathered around this table looking at Keenan on Johnny Carson.
- My whole family in the kitchen gathered around this table looking at Keenan on Johnny Carson.
- And afterwards they gather around and they're all looking at my arm, all the freckles.
- But around midnight, they all gather around the wood stove and they're rap music has not been invented yet.
- How can I point them towards somebody else where we can like gather around somebody or just take care of them in some way?
- And we were, you know, we played in San Antonio, TX and we were playing against his team one week and he goes, all right, boys, gather around.
- So we all gathered around and his father, myself, his other uncles, his grandfather, all read Joel their letters of what it means to be a man.
- Mine is actually being a workaholic, so my family will be, you know, gathered around the table at Thanksgiving, like praying before the meal.
- And I think that's The thing is human nature is to gather around the campfire and tell stories and share our experiences.
- Everyone gather, everyone gathered around him to try to figure out what was wrong.
- And then you catch up with us and I'm like, kids gather around.
Examples
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Everybody's here gathered around the table full of holiday cheer.
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We've all gathered around to help you.
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All right, everyone gather around for a Christmas story.
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All right, gather around, folks.
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Everybody gather around and look closely.
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When the pizza arrived, they all gathered around the table in the family room off the kitchen.
Fiction book (1991) -
A small group, mainly older women, has gathered around the man and his birds.
Fiction book (1992) -
Twenty minutes later, everyone is gathered around a long wooden dining table just off the kitchen.
Academic text (1997) -
Everybody's here, gathered around the table full of holiday cheer.
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Everyone, gather around the fire to stay warm on this chilly night.
Synonyms
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1.0
Bring people, things, or information together in one place
499
1.1
To bring things or people together in one place
229
1.0
To come together at one point, like two rivers or walls
152
3.3
To gather people in one place for a purpose
122
1.8
To come together with friends to spend time
118
2.8
To bring people together for a meeting or activity
74
2.0
To move together in large numbers
74
3.5
People come to an event in large numbers
45
5.7
To bring people together for a formal meeting
41
3.5
To come together in a small group or make people do the same
35
2.1
Move toward each other and meet, often touching or closing around something
33
3.4
To join others to support the same cause
30
4.1
To come together to support someone in a hard time
30
4.1
To come together in a group for a reason
8
3.3
To gather closely into a tight group
5
3.1
To move or bring close together to form a small group
3
3.4
To make a group feel part of the same community
2
3.0
To stand or move closely in a group
2
3.0
People and animals come together in a group for safety or shared interest
1
3.9
To come together to help someone or a cause
1
4.8
To move close together around a person or thing leaving little space
1
8.4
To join together to form a mass or cluster
1
9.2
To come together in one place, often for a meeting
To bring people or things together into a group
Come together in one place to meet or celebrate
Antonyms
How Crowded
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to come together and form a group around someone or something' is directly and compositionally derived from 'gather' (to assemble) plus 'around' (surrounding/nearby). This verb + locative particle pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Gather around comes from the simple image of people who gather and stand around a fire, table, or storyteller so they can see or hear better. So, it means 'to come together and form a group around someone or something'.