gathering
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)gatherings
- a group of persons together in one placeSynonyms: assemblageType of social groupKinds community, audience, crowd, class, cast, affair, pair, camp, company, multitude +23 more
- the social act of assembling“they demanded the right of assembly”Synonyms: assemblyassemblageType of group actionKinds meeting, rally, concentration, fair, convocation, wine tasting, convention, mobilization, congregation
- the act of gathering somethingSynonyms: gatherType of collection, collectingKinds harvest, centralization
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitchingSynonyms: gatherType of sewing, stitchery
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Noun get-together, social function
- French
- rassemblement
- German
- Versammlung
- Italian
- raduno
- Portuguese
- encontro
- Russian
- встре́ча vstréča
- Polish
- biesiada
- Korean
- 모임 moim
- Portuguese (PT)
- encontro
- Albanian
- mbledhje
- Catalan
- aplec
8 more languages
- Czech
- slet
- Esperanto
- kunveno
- Finnish
- kokous
- Georgian
- შეკრება šeḳreba
- Hebrew
- הִתְקַהֲלוּת hitkahalút
- Norwegian
- sammenkomst
- Scottish Gaelic
- cruinneachadh
- Slovak
- zhromaždenie
Noun group of people or things
- Spanish
- reunión
- French
- rassemblement
- German
- Ansammlung
- Russian
- собра́ние sobránije
- Korean
- 모임 moim
- Hungarian
- gyülekezet
- Georgian
- კრება ḳreba
- Norwegian
- innsamling
- Scottish Gaelic
- cruinneachadh
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. The act of collecting or bringing together.
2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: (a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. (b) A charitable contribution; a collection. (c) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
Gathering board Bookbinding, a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. Knight, Edward Henry — 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) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54