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foregather

foregather is the alternative form of forgather.

Meaning of forgather

Verb

forgather (third-person singular simple present forgathers, present participle forgathering, simple past and past participle forgathered)

  1. (intransitive) To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate.
    • Dean’s California—wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 9, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2
    Synonyms:
    collect, begather

Forms of foregather

third-person singular presentforegathers
present participleforegathering
past participleforegathered
pastforegathered

Questions about foregather

What is foregather the alternative form of?
Foregather is the alternative form of forgather.

Words near foregather in the dictionary

  1. foregames
  2. foreganger
  3. foregangers
  4. foregate
  5. foregates
  6. foregather
  7. foregathered
  8. foregathering
  9. foregatherings
  10. foregathers
  11. foregave

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foregather (page history and authors); forgather (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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