gathering
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- noun
- /ˈɡæðərɪŋ/
- My bar mitzvah party was a simple gathering of friends and family members at our home.
- social gatherings
- family gatherings
- public gatherings
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Watch on YouTubeWell, we met at a gathering for nerds.
- Well, we met at a gathering for nerds.
- Parks will remain open for exercise, but gatherings will be dispersed.
- We speak at civic club gatherings and native rights events.
- That's the group gathering to hear Doctor Martin Luther King.
- It was really the first really serious gathering around this problem.
- It's it's the ecclesia, it's the gathering in person.
- I think it happens with small gatherings of people.
- And then of course, the argument is, Nah, these are just gatherings of friends.
- I love hosting dinner parties, gatherings for people to come over here.
- Daddy Bush and his wife who used to attend some of their gatherings at Boomerbats, asked.
- So this town was like a little Europe and you had this gathering of people of different cultures.
- It's a grouping, a gathering of young people festival.
- It's my given right to go to large gatherings and infect people.
- She was having this woman's gathering right event for women at her church.
Examples
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Evening, ladies and gentlemen... and welcome to our annual social gathering.
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On August 14, 1862, Lincoln addressed a gathering of black freemen in Washington, D.C.
Academic text (2011) -
We're trying to have a nice family gathering, all right?
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The deal is that we're having a little gathering at the house.
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Well, we met at a gathering for nerds.
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We speak at civic club gatherings and native rights events.
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I gave the basket to my friend at a public gathering of the Omaha Indian community.
Academic text (1991) -
Homeowners' associations, community meetings, religious gatherings, and events of all types can happen in the library.
Academic text (2013) -
Certainly, these teachers are most likely to be present at professional gatherings where such encouragements are offered.
Academic text (2008) -
We had a wonderful family gathering to celebrate Grandma's birthday.
Synonyms
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A group of people who come together for a planned purpose or to be social
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A formal meeting where people discuss and share information
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A large meeting where people with the same job or interest gather
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A group of people who meet for a common purpose
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A small informal meeting for people to talk and spend time together
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A gathering where people meet to talk and enjoy themselves
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A social event where people meet and talk to make new friends
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A planned informal meeting for people with the same interests, often arranged online
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A planned time when several people come together to talk about something
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An event where people meet to talk and spend time together
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A group of people gathered for a common purpose, like at a meeting
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A formal group of people gathered for a meeting or ceremony
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A meeting where people come together for social or religious reasons
A meeting of people to discuss and decide important matters
Antonyms
Compounds
A group of people who live by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants for food and move from place to place
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gathering comes from the same old English verb gather, meaning 'to come together'. So a gathering as a meeting is just a group of people who have 'come together' for a purpose or a social time.