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 →

2) Gathering is collecting things together, like food or information. tree →

3) (formal, rare) A gathered fold in cloth. tree →

4) Gathering your wits means pulling your thoughts together so that you can think clearly. tree →

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 →
• The church held a gathering after the service. tree →
• Early people lived by hunting and gathering. tree →
• We are gathering data for our science project. tree →
• Storm clouds were gathering. tree →
• The gathering sang together around the fire. tree →
• Gathering his wits together, he said: tree →

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.
• A protest is people gathering to show they strongly agree or disagree with something; in free countries peaceful protest is a right.
• Gleaning meant gathering grain left at the edges of a field; God's law let the poor and foreigners do it.
• A wake is a gathering after a funeral where people eat, talk and share stories; it helps people grieve together.
• Before farming, people lived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gathering» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.