Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To gather together; assemble.
- intransitive verb To meet another, especially by accident.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To meet; convene.
- To become intimately acquainted (with); take up (with).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Scot. To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
assemble orgather together in one place, to gather up; tocongregate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb collect in one place
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the reason why these best are destroyed is because John Barleycorn stands on every highway and byway, accessible, law-protected, saluted by the policeman on the beat, speaking to them, leading them by the hand to the places where the good fellows and daring ones forgather and drink deep.
Chapter 13 2010
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These include ostrich Struthio camelus, with white pelican Pelicanus onocrotalus, and greater and lesser flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber and P. minor on Lake Makat in Ngorongoro crater, Lake Ndutu and the Empakaai crater lake where over a million birds forgather.
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Now an exile himself, he makes gentle but deadly fun of those émigrés who forgather, like the White Russians of old, in a café society devoted to toasting the ancien régime.
The Persian Version 2006
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A British friend had asked me to lunch at Wasp heaven, the Brook Club, where members and their guests forgather at a majestic mahogany dining table gleaming with gigantic silver candelabra.
The Battle for Mrs. Astor Richardson, John 2008
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Now an exile himself, he makes gentle but deadly fun of those émigrés who forgather, like the White Russians of old, in a café society devoted to toasting the ancien régime.
The Persian Version 2006
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“Hout, neighbour,” said Mrs. Howden, “we suld live and let live — we hae been young oursells, and we are no aye to judge the warst when lads and lasses forgather.”
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Some cooks base far-reaching fame solely upon their gravy, and their names come to be on the lips of men wherever they forgather at the feast.
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Christina had gone to the hairdresser and Duert was at the hospital and they would all forgather for tea presently.
A Girl Named Rose Neels, Betty 1986
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All his enemies cut off before they can forgather, a prison prepared for Maud before ever she gets foot ashore.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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All his enemies cut off before they can forgather, a prison prepared for Maud before ever she gets foot ashore.
St. Peter's Fair Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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