'Gathered' definitions:
Definition of 'gathered'
From: WordNet
adjective
Brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt" [syn: collected, gathered] [ant: uncollected, ungathered]
Definition of 'Gathered'
From: GCIDE
- Gather \Gath"er\ (g[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. g[ae]d fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. [root]29. See Good, and cf. Together.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate. [1913 Webster]
- And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. --Matt. ii. 4. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck. [1913 Webster]
- A rose just gathered from the stalk. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? --Matt. vii. 16. [1913 Webster]
- Gather us from among the heathen. --Ps. cvi. 47. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. [1913 Webster]
- He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. --Prov. xxviii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. [1913 Webster]
- Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. [1913 Webster]
- Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To gain; to win. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He gathers ground upon her in the chase. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Arch.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope. [1913 Webster]
- To be gathered to one's people or {To be gathered to one's fathers} to die. --Gen. xxv. 8.
- To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest. --Spenser.
- To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
- To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gathered'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accumulated,
- agglomerate,
- aggregate,
- allied,
- amassed,
- assembled,
- associated,
- backlogged,
- banded together,
- bound,
- bracketed,
- built,
- bunched,
- bundled,
- cast,
- clumped,
- clustered,
- collected,
- combined,
- conglomerate,
- congregate,
- congregated,
- conjoined,
- connected,
- constructed,
- copulate,
- coupled,
- crafted,
- creased,
- created,
- crimped,
- cumulate,
- custom,
- custom-built,
- custom-made,
- dog-eared,
- doubled,
- extracted,
- fabricated,
- fascicled,
- fasciculated,
- fashioned,
- flexible,
- flounced,
- fluted,
- foldable,
- folded,
- folding,
- forged,
- formed,
- garnered,
- glomerate,
- grown,
- hand-in-glove,
- hand-in-hand,
- handcrafted,
- handmade,
- harvested,
- heaped,
- hoarded,
- homemade,
- homespun,
- in session,
- incorporated,
- integrated,
- intimate,
- joined,
- joint,
- knotted,
- laid up,
- leagued,
- linked,
- lumped,
- machine-made,
- machined,
- made,
- made to order,
- man-made,
- manufactured,
- massed,
- matched,
- mated,
- meeting,
- merged,
- milled,
- mined,
- molded,
- packaged,
- paired,
- piled,
- plaited,
- pleated,
- pliable,
- plicate,
- plicated,
- plicatile,
- prefab,
- prefabricated,
- processed,
- put together,
- quilled,
- raised,
- ready-for-wear,
- ready-formed,
- ready-made,
- ready-prepared,
- ready-to-wear,
- refined,
- ruffled,
- shaped,
- smelted,
- spliced,
- stacked,
- stockpiled,
- stored,
- tied,
- treasured,
- tucked,
- twilled,
- undivided,
- united,
- unseparated,
- wedded,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-made,
- wrapped up,
- yoked
Words containing 'Gathered'
- Gather,
- Gatherable,
- Gatherer,
- Gathering,
- gather in,
- gather up,
- Gathering board,
- Gathering coal,
- Gathering hoop,
- Gathering peat,
- To gather breath,
- To gather ground,
- To gather way,
- Toll gatherer,
- gather around,
- gathered skirt,
- gathering clouds,
- gathering place,
- information gathering,
- social gathering,
- To be gathered to one's fathers,
- To be gathered to one's people,
- hunter-gatherer,
- hunting and gathering society,
- hunting and gathering tribe,
- To gather one's self together