Word Meanings - GATHERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of collecting or bringing together. 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. A charitable contribution; a collection. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GATHERING)

• Assembly
• Meeting
• concourse
• assemblage
• multitude
• group
• synod
• conclave
• conference
• convocation
• unison
• company
• congregation
• collection
• crowd
• gathering
• convention
• aggregate
• Cluster
• Bunch
• muster
• throng
• Collection
• store
• collation
• Convention
• Assemblage
• meeting
• cabinet
• congress
• session
• treaty
• compact
• Head
• Top
• crown
• chief
• leader
• ruler
• mind
• source
• section
• division
• topic
• culmination
• crisis
• leadership
• guide
• commander
• acme
• summit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GATHERING)

• Dismiss
• disperse
• relegate
• remit
• disband

Related words: (words related to GATHERING)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• UNISONANCE
  Accordance of sounds; unison.
• CONGRESSIVE
  Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• INTHRONG
  To throng or collect together. Fairfax.