gather
To collect normally separate things.
Example
“I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.”
Other meanings
Especially, to harvest food.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
Related words
- a closed mouth gathers no feet
- begather
- be gathered to one's fathers
- forgather
- hunter-gather
- gatherable
- gather dust
- gatherer
- gathering board
- gathering coal
- gathering hoop
- gather oneself
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "gaderian" (to gather, assemble).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “gather” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.