verb
forgather
Forgather (verb) means to meet or come together with other people in one place.
verb
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To meet or come together with other people in one place.
"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."
— Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon (2007)
"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."
— Jack Kerouac (1957)
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Etymology
Came from Scots forgather, foregather (“to gather up, assemble”), formed from for- and gather. It is cognate with Dutch vergaderen (“to assemble”) and German vergattern (“to assemble; to assign duty”).
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What is the meaning of forgather?
"forgather" (verb) means to meet or come together with other people in one place.
What is another word for forgather?
Other words for "forgather" include assemble, gather, meet, foregather.
