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Plural of gather

regular plural

The plural of gather is gathers.

Forms of gather

Singulargather /ˈɡæðə/
Pluralgathers
Countablecountable

Gathers in a sentence

  • My family gathers twice a year, namely at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners.From the entry dinner
  • He goes to the school and gathers new words, a new story-full every week.2015, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Blue Talk and Love, Riverdale Avenue Books LLC, →ISBN. From the entry qene
  • Mopsus, is there purpose in the pulse one gathers wristful by wristful?2014, James Reaney, A Suit of Nettles, page 13. From the entry wristful
  • Preparations for Yuan Tan begin the week before when each family member gathers in the kitchen.1997, Angela Wood, John Logan, Jenny Rose, Time and Seasons, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry Yuan Tan
  • Glass's ethereal electronic score, which suggests a Himalyan music of the spheres, gathers force and energy.1997 December 24, Stephen Holden, “Movie Review: Kundun”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Jan 2016. From the entry music of the spheres

Meaning of gather

  1. verb To collect normally separate things.
  2. verb Especially, to harvest food.
  3. verb To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

Full definition of gather

Questions about the plural of gather

What is the plural of gather?
The plural of gather is gathers.
Is gather countable?
Gather is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gather (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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