gathering
/ˈɡæð.ɚ.ɪŋ/ noun B1- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function. · The dinner was a star-spangled gathering unequaled in history.· I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
- 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.
- A charitable contribution; a collection.
- The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
- A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
Plural gatherings
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All by himself and gathering brambles;
All the school girls and boys had one golden afternoon gathering them, coming home in the clear, echoing twilight with arms and baskets full of flowery spoil.
Come, Kitty, I want you upstairs.” And gathering her work together, she was hastening away, when Elizabeth called out,--
Debray, who perceived the gathering clouds, and felt no desire to witness the explosion of Madame Danglars’ rage, suddenly recollected an appointment, which compelled him to take his leave; while Monte Cristo, unwilling by prolonging his stay to destroy the advantages he hoped to obtain, made a farewell bow and departed, leaving Danglars to endure the angry reproaches of his wife.
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