gathering

The word “gathering” has 3 syllables: gath-er-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈɡæðərɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for gathering?

In the thesaurus, “gathering” has 309 synonyms and 44 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for gathering along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for gathering

accreting
accretion
accruing
accumulating
accumulation
acquisition
affair
affiliating
agglomerate
agglomeration
agglutinating
aggregate
aggregation
allying
amassing
anticipated
apocalyptic
apocalyptical
approaching
archiving
arranging
ascertaining
assemblage
assembling
assembly
associating
association
assortment
assuming
audience
awaited
backlog
bagging
balling
band
banding
banking
batching
body
boosting
brewing
brigading
building up
bunch
bunching
cabinet
cache
capturing
caucus
caucusing
clambake
clamming
clinic
clubbing
clumping
clustering
clutter
collaborating
collating
collecting
collection
combining
coming
company
compiling
concentering
concentrating
concentration
conclave
concluding
concourse
confab
confederating
conference
congeries
conglomerate
conglomerating
conglomeration
congregating
congregation
congress
conjecturing
conjoining
connecting
consolidating
consort
consorting
constellating
construing
contemplating
convening
convention
converging
conversation
convocation
cooperating
corralling
coterie
council
coupling
cropping
crowd
crush
cumulation
cumulus
cutting
deciding
deducing
demonstration
deriving
dialog
dialogue
discourse
discussion
drawing a conclusion
drifting
drove
educing
elevating
eliciting
enhancing
enlarging
enriching
evoking
exciting
expanding
expected
extending
extrapolating
federating
finding out
fishing
flock
flocking
foraging
foregathering
foreseen
forgathering
forthcoming
forum
function
fund
future
gain
gaining
gallery
gang
ganging up
garnering
get-together
getting together
getting up
gleaning
grandstand
group
grouping
growing
guessing
harvesting
hash
haying
heap
heaping
herd
herding
hiving
hoard
hodgepodge
horde
hotchpotch
house
huddle
huddling
hunting
imminent
impending
inevitable
inferring
ingathering
interpreting
interview
inventory
joining
judging
jumble
junction
kitty
knot
legion
levy
likely
linking
litter
lodgement
lodgment
looming
lowering
lumping
making out
market
mass
massing
maximizing
medley
meet
meeting
menacing
merging
mishmash
mix
mixture
mob
motley
mounting
mowing
multitude
muster
mustering
near
nearing
negotiation
nest egg
netting
ominous
oncoming
organizing
pack
packing
palaver
panel
parley
party
pending
philosophizing
picking
picking up
pile
pileup
piling
pooling
portentous
possible
potpourri
predicted
press
pressing
probable
rabble
rabblement
raising
rally
rallying
rationalizing
re-collecting
reading
reaping
reasoning
reassembling
reconvening
regathering
regrouping
remeeting
rendezvousing
reserve
ridging
round-robin
rounding up
roundtable
roundup
sealing
seminar
session
shrimping
snaring
social function
society
speculating
stacking
stepping up
stimulating
stock
stockpile
store
sum
summit
summoning
supply
supposing
surmising
swarm
swarming
symposium
synod
systematizing
talk
thinking
threatening
throng
thronging
totality
trapping
turnout
unavoidable
understanding
union
uniting
upcoming
whaling
workshop

Antonyms for gathering

abating
breaking up
bygone
departing
dipping
disbanding
disintegrating
disjoining
dismissing
dispelling
dispersal
dispersing
dissipating
dissociating
dissolving
distant
disuniting
division
dwindling
eventual
far-off
former
individual
late
leaving
lessening
losing
loss
one
past
planting
recent
remote
scattering
seeding
sending
separating
separation
severing
sowing
taking off
tapering
tapering off
ultimate

Meanings of gathering

noun
1. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
2. A group of people or things.
3. A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
4. A charitable contribution; a collection.
5. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
verb
1. To collect; normally separate things.
2. To bring parts of a whole closer.
3. To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
4. (of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus.
5. To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
6. To gain; to win.
adjective
1. That gathers together.

Example Sentences

The gathering of friends and family made the event truly memorable.
The community organized a gathering to discuss plans for the new park.
She enjoyed the gathering of local artists at the annual art fair.
The gathering of data from various sources is essential for accurate analysis.
They hosted a gathering to celebrate the launch of their new product.

On this page you'll find 353 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to gathering, such as: abating, accreting, accretion, accruing, accumulating, accumulation, acquisition.

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