to draw together
1
3.5
- phrasal verb
- /drɔː təˈɡɛðər/
:
unir
- Community is often established when people draw together in the face of danger or retreat from a world they do not fully comprehend.
- draw together people
And he said the purpose of the Pope is to symbolize and embody and draw together the unity of the entire church.
- And he said the purpose of the Pope is to symbolize and embody and draw together the unity of the entire church.
- How this vision unquiled surreptitiously, it draws together modernity and religion.
- That those that exchange of ideas which can be done respectfully is the only way that we are going to draw together in this country, in this world.
Examples
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Part of the philosophical interest of what Dickinson highlights about listening may depend less on articulating new ideas about experience than on drawing together different existing accounts of experience in a new way.
Academic text (2016) -
The charity event was designed to draw together people from all walks of life to support a common cause.
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At the same time, online tools have also helped draw together supporters of libraries and schools facing challenges.
Academic text (2011) -
Similarly, music and dance also served to draw together young Ethiopian Jews and others into distinctive Black cultural settings.
Academic text (2006) -
And he said the purpose of the Pope is to symbolize and embody and draw together the unity of the entire church.
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Voyagers bound together as AIBS, the only association that draws together scientists around the common theme of biological diversity.
Academic text (1997) -
Such ideologies prompt people to think of themselves as part of a community, drawn together by a common culture and history (Foster 1995a: 7).
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Many believe that the formation of the Creek confederacy was a consequence of the remaining Native people being drawn together as a form of self-protection; others maintain that bonds of association predated de Soto.
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Nineteenth-century European historians developed a chronology of settlement by drawing together the extensive Maori oral history on the subject, which recalls several canoe voyages.
Academic text (2003) -
When applications of stare decisis end up repackaging disputes about constitutional interpretation, fidelity to precedent loses its ability to draw together justices with varying approaches to the Constitution.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
∞
2.1
To join people or things into one group for a shared purpose
∞
1.0
Connect two things so they become attached
274
2.7
Join with others to work for the same goal
149
2.9
To form a close relationship with someone
118
2.8
To bring people together for a meeting or activity
84
5.4
To gather people, supplies, or courage for a purpose
65
3.7
To bring people or things together into one group
50
3.4
Gather people or things and organize them to reach a goal
34
3.1
Join with other people to work together for a common purpose
33
3.4
To join others to support the same cause
14
2.5
Pull something close to your body, like a coat or blanket
5
3.8
To come together and support the same cause
3
3.4
To make a group feel part of the same community
2
3.9
Make people or groups work closely together as one
1
4.6
To join with others to reach a common goal
How United
149
2.9
∞
2.1
1
3.5
- Informal
118
2.8
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to bring people together' is directly and transparently built from 'draw' (to pull in people or attention) + 'together' (jointly/united), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'pull people together'. This verb + adverb composition is a common, compositional pattern cross-linguistically and therefore readily comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Draw together comes from a simple image: draw meaning 'to pull' and together meaning 'into one place', like pulling chairs into a circle so people sit close. So when something draws people together, it 'brings people close' and helps them feel united.