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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun gathering has 4 senses

• gathering(n = noun.group) assemblage - a group of persons together in one place; Array
is a kind of social group
has particulars: building, carload, contingent, floor, pair, room, threesome, triad, trinity, trio, turnout, foursome, quartet, quartette, fivesome, quintet, quintette, sextet, sextette, sixsome, septet, septette, sevensome, eightsome, octet, octette, assembly, crowd, concourse, multitude, throng, audience, community, municipality, cast, cast of characters, dramatis personae, class, course, form, grade, class, year, social affair, social gathering, bunch, crew, crowd, gang, group meeting, meeting, covey, quorum, mass meeting, rally, commune, convocation, fair, bevy, cortege, entourage, retinue, suite, camp, muster, rap group, rave-up, table, wine tasting
Derived forms verb gather₂, verb gather₆

• gathering(n = noun.act) assemblage, assembly - the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly"
is a kind of group action
has particulars: mobilisation, mobilization, calling together, convocation, coming together, meeting, congregating, congregation, convening, convention, concentration
Derived forms verb gather₂, verb gather₆

• gathering(n = noun.act) gather - the act of gathering something; Array
is a kind of aggregation, assembling, collecting, collection
has particulars: centralisation, centralization, harvest, harvest home, harvesting
Derived form verb gather₃

• gathering(n = noun.artifact) gather - sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching; Array
is a kind of sewing, stitchery
Derived form verb gather₅

CIDE DICTIONARY

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

gathering

Smyth sewing, abscess, accumulation, acervation, affair, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, aposteme, apotheosis, article, articulation, ascension, assemblage, assemblee, assembling, assembly, assignation, assumption, at home, back matter, backing, ball, bed sore, bibliopegy, binder board, binding, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bond, book, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, bracketing, brawl, bringing together, bubo, bulla, bunch, bunion, call-up, canker, canker sore, canvass, carbuncle, case, casemaking, casing-in, caucus, census, chancre, chancroid, chapter, chilblain, chunk, clause, clustering, cold sore, collating, collating mark, collection, colligation, collocation, colloquium, combination, commission, committee, communication, company, comparison, concatenation, conclave, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congeries, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congregation, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conventicle, convention, convergence, convocation, copulation, corralling, council, coupling, cover, crew, crop, cropping, crowd, crush, cumulation, cutting, dance, data-gathering, date, diet, dust cover, dust jacket, eisteddfod, eschar, fascicle, felon, fester, festering, festivity, fete, fever blister, fistula, flock, folding, folio, footband, forgathering, forum, front matter, furuncle, furunculus, gang, get-together, gleaning, glomeration, gluing-off, gob, group, gumboil, hard binding, harvest, harvesting, headband, hemorrhoids, hookup, horde, housewarming, hunk, ingathering, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, inventory, jacket, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, juxtaposition, kibe, knotting, lesion, levee, liaison, library binding, lining, lining-up, linkage, linking, lump, marriage, mass, matinee, mechanical binding, meet, meeting, merger, merging, mobilization, muster, niggerhead, number, nutting, page, pairing, panel, papula, papule, paragraph, paronychia, party, parulis, passage, perfect binding, petechia, phrase, piles, pimple, plastic binding, plenum, pock, polyp, press, prom, pustule, quorum, rally, reaping, reception, rendezvous, resurrection, reunion, rising, rodeo, rounding, roundup, rout, ruck, saddle stitching, salon, scab, seance, section, sentence, session, sewing, sheet, shindig, side sewing, signature, sit-in, sitting, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, snowball, sociable, social, social affair, social gathering, soft binding, soft chancre, soiree, sore, spiral binding, splice, stamping, stapling, stigma, stockpile, sty, suppuration, survey, swarm, swelling, symbiosis, symposium, synod, tailband, text, the Ascension, the Assumption, tie, tie-in, tie-up, tipping, translation, trimming, tubercle, turnout, ulcer, ulceration, unification, union, verse, wad, wake, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wire stitching, wound, wrapper, yoking

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gathering

Disease

N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

Shade

N shade, awning, parasol, sunshade, umbrella, chick, portiere, screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil, chador, mantle, mask, cloud, mist, gathering, of clouds, umbrage, glade, shadow, beach umbrella, folding umbrella, shady, umbrageous, welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail.

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