gatherings

noun

plural of gathering
1
as in assemblies
a body of people come together in one place the President spoke before the gathering of student leaders

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2
as in meetings
a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose attended a gathering for descendants of people who came to America on the Mayflower

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3
as in accumulations
a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of time a great gathering of dust under the bed

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Recent Examples of gatherings Brundage drove from Illinois to attend Luftgekühlt and regularly participates in Porsche rallies and gatherings. — Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Friday there will be workshops at venues along Broadway during the day, along with gatherings at the Black Panther Party Museum followed by a celebration at the Oakland Museum of California. — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Throughout this residency, the space will host dinners, editorial appointments, styling sessions and community gatherings, the company said. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026 His four grandchildren often guide him during family gatherings. — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The camaraderie morphed into friendship, and changed how Truncale approaches such gatherings. — Diane Brady, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026 As is tradition, the festival will happen at the tail end of Miami Music Week, a run of parties, brand events and other gatherings for the dance music industry and fans of the music. — Katie Bain, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026 The development would have a homeowners’ association, and the Newburys plan private roads serving the community from Oakland Road, sidewalks, a community center for outdoor gatherings, recreation areas and a trail with fitness stations. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2026 While the main chalet offers space for family gatherings—long dinners prepared on a La Cornue range followed by listening sessions with music from a vintage jukebox in the playroom—the wellness zone on the lower level invites a slower rhythm. — Michael James Gardner, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gatherings
  1. assemblies
  2. meetings
  3. accumulations
  4. conferences
  5. collections
  6. assemblages
  7. mixtures
  8. congregations
Noun
  • Effective immediately, the city will not issue new permits to the affected parties for assemblies, parades, special events and noise.
    — Jared Ochacher, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Anduril relies on Applied Aerospace to deliver the physical aircraft, supplying everything from the engine fuselage and main landing gear assemblies to the wings and horizontal stabilizers.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of assemblies
Noun
  • Documents detailing meetings in April and August between the government, the WHO and other health partners, reviewed by Reuters and not previously reported, show how efforts to act fast may have led to shortcomings.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Last month, citing anonymous sources, Reuters reported that Solidigm was considering an initial public offering and had held pitch meetings with investment banks.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of meetings
Noun
  • Some people experienced them as a purely optical means of aesthetic transport; others found in them tactile accumulations of crust, carnage, and debris.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Her darkly psychedelic accumulations let their language sprawl.
    — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of accumulations
Noun
  • In the eyes of the conferences, and CFP committee, the allure of a postseason bid is the carrot that would dangle in front of them so that fans would look the other way at the nonsense this creates for the football played in September or October.
    — Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • These conferences are hosted every four years by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) and discuss measurement issues with member states worldwide.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of conferences
Noun
  • None of the stores surveyed by WWD listed Calvin Klein among their favorite collections during the recent New York Fashion Week.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Some 37% of Gen Z women kept their collections on view only within their own households, compared with 16% of Gen Z men.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of collections
Noun
  • Beginning in 1989, oil and acrylic paints gave way to olive oil, henna, tea, spices, and coffee, while animal glue, mud, and leather also shaped the group’s posters, paintings, and mixed-media assemblages.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Often these assemblages of items are tied together in a bundle or bag and may be referred to as hands, mojos, or gris-gris.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of assemblages
Noun
  • The system uses algorithms and neural networks to find the most suitable metal mixtures and processing methods.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
  • At the cold-hold unit, tomato mixtures temped at 50 degrees for approximately one hour.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of mixtures
Noun
  • The seven temples — at a conservative estimate — represent congregations of about 15,000 people, said Jasjit Singh, a Sikh community leader and trustee for the Sacramento City Unified School District.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In September, the LDS church stated its opposition to Prop 1 in a letter that was read on two different days in all of its congregations, Whitlock said.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of congregations

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“Gatherings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gatherings. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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