gathering
A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
Example
“I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.”
Other meanings
A group of people or things.
“a gathering of Catholics”
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.”
Synonyms
- assemblage
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "gaderung" (gathering, assembly).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “gathering” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.