Together
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /tʊˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)/, /təˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)/
- US IPA: /tʊˈɡɛðɚ/, IPA: /təˈɡɛðɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛðə(r)
- Hyphenation: to + geth + er
Origin
From Late Middle English together, from earlier togedere, togadere, from Old English tÅgædere ("together"), from Proto-Germanic *tÅ ("to") + Proto-Germanic *gadar ("together"), from Proto-Indo-European *gÊ·hedh- ("to keep"), equivalent to - + gather. Cognate with Scots togiddir, thegither ("together"), Old Frisian togadera ("together"), Middle Dutch tegadere, tegader ("together"), Middle High German gater ("together"). Compare also Old English ætgædere ("together"), Old English Ä¡eador ("together"). More at gather.
Full definition of together
Adverb
together
- At the same time, in the same place; in close association.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 7, “… This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.†Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
- We went to school together.
- Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
- a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." Chapter Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone, Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 2, Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke....A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
- He put all the parts together.
- In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 1, A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
- Bob and Andy went into business together. Jenny and Mark have been together since they went on holiday to Mexico.