Forgather

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /fəˈɡaðə/

Alternative forms

• foregather

Origin

From Scots forgather, foregather ("to gather up, assemble"), equivalent to English - + gather. Compare Dutch vergaderen ("to assemble").

Full definition of forgather

Verb

1. (intransitive) To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate.
• Wodehouse Offing|XII|“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.”
• 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 725:“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.’
• 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 8: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.