Synonyms of gathering

gathering 1 of 3

noun

ˈga-t͟hə-riŋ 

1

as in assembly

a body of people come together in one place

the President spoke before the gathering of student leaders

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assembly
• meeting
• assemblage
• conference
• congregation
• audience
• convocation
• panel
• symposium
• ingathering
• throng
• synod
• crowd
• muster
• swarm
• market
• flock
• coterie
• caucus
• gang
• rally
• house
• forum
• multitude
• consort
• company
• pack
• horde
• grandstand
• gallery
• press
• rabble
• mob
• legion
• crush
• rabblement

2

as in meeting

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• meeting
• convention
• assembly
• conclave
• symposium
• conference
• convocation
• council
• get-together
• workshop
• congress
• huddle
• synod
• discussion
• seminar
• rally
• demonstration
• session
• caucus
• conversation
• dialogue
• summit
• discourse
• cabinet
• clinic
• negotiation
• interview
• forum
• audience
• talk
• confab
• roundtable
• palaver
• parley
• round-robin

3

as in accumulation

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accumulation
• collection
• assemblage
• mixture
• jumble
• pile
• mix
• cumulation
• accretion
• cumulus
• assortment
• heap
• lodgment
• mass
• conglomerate
• pileup
• medley
• hoard
• conglomeration
• supply
• hodgepodge
• aggregation
• potpourri
• aggregate
• clutter
• sum
• motley
• inventory
• congeries
• hash
• agglomeration
• litter
• mélange
• mishmash
• stockpile
• totality
• agglomerate
• store
• cache
• nest egg
• reserve
• hotchpotch
• backlog
• fund
• kitty
• stock

gathering

2 of 3

adjective

as in brewing

Related Words

• brewing
• future
• coming
• upcoming
• forthcoming
• nearing
• possible
• probable
• looming
• approaching
• impending
• near
• threatening
• inevitable
• oncoming
• imminent
• likely
• unavoidable
• pending
• anticipated
• predicted
• ominous
• apocalyptic
• awaited
• expected
• menacing
• foreseen
• lowering
• portentous

Dissimilar Words

• remote
• distant
• past
• ultimate
• eventual
• recent
• former
• far-off
• late
• bygone

gathering

3 of 3

verb

present participle of gather

1

as in collecting

to bring together in one body or place

he gathered the leftovers from the table and gave them to the dog

let's gather the students and have them line up on the playground before going in from recess

Synonyms & Similar Words

• collecting
• assembling
• amassing
• accumulating
• grouping
• corralling
• garnering
• packing
• joining
• combining
• congregating
• concentrating
• lumping
• organizing
• getting together
• bulking (up)
• constellating
• uniting
• piling
• arranging
• mustering
• stacking
• rounding up
• rallying
• compiling
• raising
• huddling
• connecting
• clustering
• picking up
• merging
• swarming
• flocking
• batching
• linking
• pooling
• balling
• banding
• bunching
• herding
• regrouping
• collating
• heaping
• pressing
• thronging
• systematizing
• archiving
• hiving
• brigading
• regathering
• scraping (up or together)
• re-collecting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dispersing
• scattering
• dissipating
• separating
• sending
• dissolving
• splitting (up)
• disintegrating
• dispelling
• dismissing
• severing
• breaking up
• disbanding

2

as in harvesting

to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use

late summer is when we gather the tomatoes and begin canning them for the winter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• harvesting
• picking
• growing
• reaping
• fishing
• mowing
• accumulating
• gleaning
• foraging
• sealing
• hunting
• cutting
• capturing
• trapping
• cropping
• whaling
• garnering
• clamming
• raising
• shrimping
• netting
• bagging
• haying
• snaring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• planting
• seeding
• sowing

3

as in converging

to come together into one body or place

a crowd gathered around the street musician

ask the faculty to gather in the lounge for the meeting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• meeting
• converging
• assembling
• convening
• rendezvousing
• collecting
• joining
• congregating
• clustering
• merging
• concentrating
• forgathering
• cooperating
• getting together
• conglomerating
• collaborating
• consolidating
• concentering
• uniting
• clubbing
• coupling
• federating
• affiliating
• consorting
• allying
• reassembling
• associating
• caucusing
• reconvening
• conjoining
• banding (together)
• ganging up
• confederating
• regathering
• remeeting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dispersing
• splitting (up)
• leaving
• disbanding
• breaking up
• departing
• taking off
• dissociating
• disuniting
• disjoining

4

as in deriving

to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information

I gather that, since you are back so early, she didn't want to see you?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deriving
• understanding
• deciding
• thinking
• reasoning
• extrapolating
• deducing
• inferring
• judging
• concluding
• guessing
• speculating
• reading
• ascertaining
• assuming
• drawing a conclusion
• making out
• interpreting
• supposing
• contemplating
• rationalizing
• construing
• surmising
• conjecturing
• philosophizing
• finding out
• doping (out)

5

as in accumulating

to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass

the newspapers that had been allowed to gather on the front doorstep told thieves that the family was away on vacation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accumulating
• collecting
• amassing
• concentrating
• massing
• piling (up)
• stacking (up)
• accreting
• conglomerating
• drifting
• building up
• clumping
• lumping
• agglutinating
• banking
• ridging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• scattering
• dispersing
• dissipating

6

as in gaining

to gradually increase in

the movement gathered force as election day neared

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gaining
• growing (in)
• accumulating
• building up
• expanding
• accruing
• exciting
• picking up
• stimulating
• amassing
• enhancing
• mounting
• maximizing
• enriching
• enlarging
• doubling (in)
• extending
• elevating
• tripling (in)
• boosting
• stepping up
• ramping (up)
• jacking (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing
• decreasing (in)
• falling (in)
• declining (in)
• dwindling
• tapering
• dipping
• diminishing (in)
• lessening
• tapering off
• abating

7

as in summoning

to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powers

gathered the strength to finish the marathon

Synonyms & Similar Words

• summoning
• getting up
• conjuring (up)
• evoking
• eliciting
• raising
• educing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gathering

Noun

The annual gathering honors Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day, which falls on the last weekend of September. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

She's worked through a roughly $200,000 design budget and has big plans to turn the building into a new gathering space. — Jennifer Liu valentina Duarte, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026

Verb

The name represents the cold season shift from gathering crops into securing meat for the winter, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. — Karlee Van De Venter, Idaho Statesman, 6 Oct. 2026

At least 75 percent of Earth's mass appears to come from two young planets, known as protoplanets, that grew large by gathering pebbles, while planetesimals supplied up to 25 percent, the study found. — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2026