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# gathering

«gathering» in Mova's school dictionary: **a group of people who meet together, often for a special…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a gathering, gatherings); verb form (gather, gathers, gathered, gathering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A gathering is a group of people who meet together, often for a special reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#m1)

2) Gathering is collecting things together, like food or information. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#m2)

3) (formal, rare) A gathered fold in cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#m3)

4) Gathering your wits means pulling your thoughts together so that you can think clearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Family gatherings, church gatherings, history (hunter-gatherers), science (gathering data), weather (gathering clouds = a storm is coming).

### examples

- We have a big family gathering at Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#x1)
- The church held a gathering after the service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#x2)
- Early people lived by hunting and gathering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#x3)
- We are gathering data for our science project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#x4)
- Storm clouds were gathering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#x5)
- The gathering sang together around the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#x6)
- Gathering his wits together, he said: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/#x7)

### note

«Gathering» is countable as a meeting (a gathering, gatherings). In safety: «gathering point» is where you meet in a fire drill.

### In the corpora

- [Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/9/)
- [A protest is people gathering to show they strongly agree or disagree with something; in free countries peaceful protest is a right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/13/)
- [Gleaning meant gathering grain left at the edges of a field; God's law let the poor and foreigners do it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/7/)
- [A wake is a gathering after a funeral where people eat, talk and share stories; it helps people grieve together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/63-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave/10/)
- [Before farming, people lived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gathering» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gathering/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.