gathering

noun

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   A group of people or things.

   a gathering of Catholics

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   A charitable contribution; a collection.

5. 5

   The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.

   The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.

6. 6

   A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of gatherpresent participle and gerund of gather

adjective

1. 1

   That gathers together.

   She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.

Forms

plural

gatherings