forgather

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/fəˈɡaðə/ (UK)
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/fəˈɡaðə/ (UK) · /fɚˈɡæðɚ/

Definition of forgather

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate.
    “Dean’s California—wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”
    ““And she caught you?” “Not once, but twice.” [...] “Half-way under the dressing-table, were you?” “The second time. When we first forgathered, I was sitting on the floor with a chair round my neck.””
    ““I can tell you where to find them,’ she said, ‘with a fair degree of certainty; they foregather almost every evening about this time at a rather disreputable old pub.’”
    “They found themselves obliged to forgather in Perugia, where few of them wished to be – least of all the French cardinals who would have preferred not to be in Italy at all.”

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Etymology

From Scots forgather, foregather (“to gather up, assemble”), equivalent to for- + gather. Cognate with Dutch vergaderen (“to assemble”), German vergattern (“to assemble; to assign duty”).

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