gathering

About 13.98 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   The dinner was a star-spangled gathering unequaled in history.

2. noun A group of people or things.

   a gathering of Catholics

3. noun A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.

   This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.

4. noun A charitable contribution; a collection.
5. noun The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
6. noun A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
7. verb present participle and gerund of gather
8. adjective That gathers together.

   She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.

Similar words

assemblage assembly intensifying deepening thickening get-together rendezvous meeting rally assembling

Often followed by

of and in the information up together at place

Word family

gatherings