Dictionary

forgather en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /fəˈɡaðə/ (UK)
• /fɚˈɡæðɚ/ (General-American)

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”).

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate.
   • “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.’ 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 725:
   • “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.” 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
   • 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. 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 8:
   • 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. 1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 9, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:

Forms

Synonyms

begather · collect

Translations (6)

bg срещам се (To assemble or gather together in one place) · bg събирам се (To assemble or gather together in one place) · pl zgromadzić się (To assemble or gather together in one place) · bg общувам (To assemble or gather together in one place) · pl gromadzić się (To assemble or gather together in one place) · fr se réunir (To assemble or gather together in one place)