gather

/ɡˈæðɚ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

verb

1. assemble or get together
   “gather some stones”
2. collect in one place
   “We assembled in the church basement”
3. collect or gather
   “Journals are accumulating in my office”
4. conclude from evidence
   “I gather you have not done your homework”
5. draw together into folds or puckers
6. get people together
   “assemble your colleagues”
7. draw and bring closer
   “she gathered her shawl around her shoulders”
8. look for (food) in nature
   “Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall”
9. increase or develop
   “the peace movement gained momentum”

noun

1. sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
2. the act of gathering something

Synonyms for gather

• garner
• collect
• pull together
• meet
• assemble
• forgather
• foregather
• accumulate
• cumulate
• conglomerate
• pile up
• amass
• pucker
• tuck
• get together
• gain
• gathering

Antonyms of gather

• spread

Words that rhyme with gather

• lather
• rather
• blather
• slather
• mather
• prather
• sather
• smather
• wrather