Contact and joining
Synonyms for gather
Synonyms for gather: collect, meet, assemble and congregate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for gather
Interchangeable with gather, one per sense
Audited under gather's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one gather carries in that sense.
- collectverb, in the sense "assemble or get together"
- meetverb, in the sense "collect in one place"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name gather as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- assembleassemble is a verb in the sense "get people together"
- congregatecongregate is a verb in the sense "to gather together as a group in one place"
two of these come from gather's own entries in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
assemble or get together
Gather some stones.
gather in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Before the picnic, the children were asked to gather firewood along the trail.
- The clerk told him to gather the receipts before the end-of-month audit.
How it behaves: In this sense gather usually takes a plural or mass-noun object such as stones, wood, or evidence, and appears in imperative or task-oriented instructions across everyday and workplace registers.
The true synonym
collect
Same sentence, swapped: Collect some stones.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- gain
- tuck
- spread
Opposites, in this sense
scatter, disperse and distribute reverse gather as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of gather takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- scatter
- disperse
- distribute
collect in one place
Let's gather in the dining room.
gather in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Reporters began to gather outside the courthouse before the verdict was announced.
- Every Friday the team would gather in the break room to review the week's orders.
How it behaves: In this sense gather is usually intransitive, taking a plural or collective subject and often followed by a location phrase such as "in" or "at", and it suits both formal and everyday registers.
The true synonym
meet
Same sentence, swapped: Let's meet in the dining room.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- gain
- tuck
- invite
Opposites, in this sense
disperse, scatter and separate reverse gather as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of gather takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- disperse
- scatter
- separate
Where gather turns up in the game
gather is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where gather is the trap
Play gather
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gather reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gather carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.