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US
/ˈɡæðɝɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɡˈæðəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈæðəɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- a group of persons together in one place
- the act of gathering something
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the social act of assembling
they demanded the right of assembly - sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
How To Use gathering In A Sentence
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- She watched Luke read it, saw the gathering frown carve two grooves over his aquiline nose.
- I stood in the doorway for a moment, gathering my energy for polite chitchat. FOOLS GOLD
- Yet Highland culture continues to flourish through the Gaelic language, piping, ceilidhs (informal gatherings with traditional music, dancing and poetry) and a full schedule of Highland games.
- The most striking but by no means the only instances are the hole cut in a page of his novel Albert Angelo and the presentation, in The Unfortunates, of a box containing a bundle of unbound gatherings to be read in random order.
- an amiable gathering
- But sure, they could be more "anti-consumerist" by having a druidical gathering of eight friends in the middle of the forest and a picnic lunch. Love on a farmboy's wages
- And one of the best ways of gathering criminal intelligence is forensics.
- He had described it as ‘a gathering place for computer otaku,’ so I had a negative image about the place before seeing it.
- There are two large rooms that can be used for social gatherings equipped with a TV and a beamer and screen, plus a dining room and a well-furnished kitchen next to the swimming pool. Weekly