## Meanings
1. To come together in one place, or to bring people or things together.
2. To collect things from different places into one.
3. To understand or conclude something from what you have heard or seen.
4. To pick or collect food, such as fruit or nuts, from where it grows.

## Examples
- A large crowd gathered in the square to watch the parade.
- She gathered her books and left the classroom.
- From his tone, I gathered that he was not happy with the result.
- Our ancestors gathered nuts and berries in the autumn.

## Synonyms
- accumulate
- assemble
- begather
- togetherize

## Derived Forms
- begather
- chip-and-gather
- forgather
- gatherable
- gatherer
- hunter-gather
- hunter-gathering
- ingather
- misgather
- omnium-gatherum
- regather
- together

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *gʰedʰ-
- Root: gaderen
- Root: gaderian
- Root: *gadurōn

## Etymology
From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).

## AI Etymology
Gather comes from Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”). In current use, the main senses are “To come together in one place, or to bring people or things together” and “To collect things from different places into one”.

## Topics
- Food & Drink
- Verbs of Movement

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