gather
assemble or get together
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,826 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,869 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- assemble or get together also: garner, collect, pull together gather some stonespull your thoughts together
- collect in one place also: meet, assemble, forgather, foregather We assembled in the church basementLet's gather in the dining room
- collect or gather also: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, amass Journals are accumulating in my officeThe work keeps piling up
- conclude from evidence I gather you have not done your homework
- draw together into folds or puckers also: pucker, tuck
- get people together also: assemble, get together assemble your colleaguesget together all those who are interested in the project
gather in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And he would gather more redwoods now!
The Valley of the Giants · Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne · Chapter 1
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Gather, then, each flower that grows, When the young heart overflows, To embalm that tent of snows.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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What you can do is to lead them off to gather things or look at church towers.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Brigs that figs for market gather, Homeward-bound upon the stretch, Encounter oft this uglier weather Yet in end their port they fetch.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Formerly isolated, they have managed to gather around them powerful interests, accomplices high in office, and friends whose commanding situation protects them.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1