Social life
Synonyms for gathering
Synonyms for gathering: meetup, assembly and reunion. 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 3 synonyms for gathering
Interchangeable with gathering in this sense
Audited under gathering's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one gathering carries in that sense.
- meetupnoun, in the sense "an occasion when a group of people meet together socially"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name gathering as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from gathering's own entry 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.
an occasion when a group of people meet together socially.
Nearly fifty relatives showed up for the annual family gathering at the farm.
The true synonym
meetup
Same sentence, swapped: Nearly fifty relatives showed up for the annual family meetup at the farm.
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.
- audit
- ceremony
- festival
Where gathering turns up in the game
gathering is the word under test in one puzzle, at 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 gathering is the trap
- conflictnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is battle, in the sense "an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)", so gathering is there to be ruled out.
- exodusnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is departure, in the sense "a mass departure of people from a place", so gathering is there to be ruled out.
Play gathering
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gathering 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 social life 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. gathering carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.