gather

CEFRB1

/ˈɡaðə/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To bring things or people together in one place.

  2. 02

    verb

    To understand or learn something from evidence.

Examples

  • Maruyama Park is a place where a lot of people gather.

  • You must gather further information.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To collect normally separate things.

  2. Especially, to harvest food.

  3. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.

More examples

In context

  • I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.

  • She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.

  • We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).