gatherin'

Noun

gathering (plural gatherings)

1. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
   • The dinner was a star-spangled gathering unequaled in history.

   Synonyms:

   assemblage, affair

2. A group of people or things.
   • a gathering of Catholics

   Synonyms:

   assemblage, concourse, congregation

3. 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. A charitable contribution; a collection.
5. (uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
   • The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130
6. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

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