Definition of Gatherings

1. Noun. (plural of gathering) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gatherings

1. gathering [n] - See also: gathering

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gatherings

gather in
gather one's thoughts
gather one's wits
gather up
gatherable
gathered
gathered dust
gathered skirt
gatherer
gatherers
gathereth
gathering
gathering(a)
gathering dust
gathering place
gatherings (current term)
gathers
gathers dust
gaths
gatifloxacin
gating
gating current
gating mechanism
gatings
gator
gator bait
gators
gats
gatted
gatten tree

Literary usage of Gatherings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1888)
"The periodical gatherings of villages, townships,—are regular institutions, ... The painter includes among his subjects the gatherings of numbers in armies, ..."

2. The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"... killed or handed gatherings over alive to his brother.3 We have more than one rebel! vigorous report of the oratory used in these seditious gatherings. ..."

3. Reaching All Families: Creating Family-Friendly Schools edited by Oliver C. Moles (1997)
"These luncheons let parents engage in informal conver- gatherings sations with the principal and each other and can be organized schoolwide, by grade level, ..."

4. Publication[s] (1904)
"HISTORICAL SOCIETY gatherings. April 19, 1904. At the invitation of the Canton Historical Society, some members of the Sharon Society and of the Stoughton ..."

5. Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age by Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1920)
"CHAPTER XVIII SOCIAL gatherings; RECREATIONS AND AMUSEMENTS If thou hast a ... tendered to a person upon the eve of his de- gatherings parture on a long or ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Public gatherings indeed ceased, but many of those who ostensibly professed the old faith secretly read Lutheran works which they had concealed. ..."

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