gathering

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A meeting of people, often for a social or special occasion.

   I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of collecting things together.

   The gathering of the harvest takes several weeks.

From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather + -ing (verbal noun ending).

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