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Definition of gathering : 1. A charitable contribution; a collection.
2. A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
3. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
4. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
5. of Gather
6. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
7. The act of collecting or bringing together.

Synonyms:

concentration, thickening, diet, collect, congress, company, caravan, congregation, gather, mob, council of war, congeries, cumulus, crew, fabrication, down, caucus, audience, gathering of the clans, conclave, amassment, horde, multitude, round-up, capture, flock, assembly, meeting place, combination, intensifying, growing, declining, council, council meeting, concourse, moot, forgathering, senate, muster, synod, group, queue, panel, conference, busload, bevy, array, throng, swarm, association, hookup, convocation, junction, exponential, meet, aggregation, gemote, interchange, attendance, huddle, club, press, mass, posse, bunch, troop, conventicle, acquisition, folkmoot, collection, confab, mobilization, parliament, accretion, house, legislature, bull session, school, confluence, convention, vestry, reception, circle, coven, recovery, convergence, crowd, get-together, collocation, fourfold, retrieval, accumulative, discussion, galaxy, society, crush, witenagemot, union, band, levy, accumulation, committee, depleted, graduated, deepening, ingathering, reunion, herd, function, rout, host, parley, cumulation, assemblage, powwow, turnout, constellation, drove, connect, entertainment, pileup, gang, eisteddfod, lodgment, age group, body, conflux, social gathering, party

convoking

giving faith, understanding, professing, judging, surmising, concluding, accepting, maintaining, crediting, affirming, presuming, assuming, declaring, assenting, supposing, taking for granted, trusting, believing, putting faith in, holding, deeming

catching, procuring, amassing, confiscating, commandeering, monopolizing, capturing, annexing, levying, abducting, harvesting, depriving, grabbing, acquiring, usurping, reaping, impounding, taking, getting, bagging, appropriating, nabbing, collecting

focus, marrow, intersection, asymptote, epitome, lodestar, core, heart, essence, kernel, nucleus, funnel, polestar, meat, bottleneck, lure, forum, magnet, axle, soul, rendezvous, plenum, spirit, hub, crossing, center, crux, rally

conversing, hob-nobbing, befriending, attending, hosting, talking, socializing

focusing, converging, funneling, intersecting, rallying, centering

congregating, meeting, mustering, convening, assembling

greeting, joining, encountering, bumping into, receiving, welcoming, running into

apprehending, imagining, dreading, inferring, suspecting, anticipating, awaiting, foreboding, foreseeing, presupposing, expecting, envisaging, foreknowing, contemplating, deducing, envisioning

doubling, creasing, tucking, furrowing, rippling, pleating, crimping, puckering, folding, corrugating, wrinkling

Usage examples:

• Gathering more of the grass, the boy returned to his brother and they both ate of it and were strengthened. - "Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India", Katherine Neville Fleeson.
• " I'll be back as soon as I can," Bradby answered, and slipped into the shadows that were already gathering thick and fast. - "The Lost Valley", J. M. Walsh.
• Two women stood under the tree, gathering the blossoms. - "The Book of Nature Myths", Florence Holbrook.