Definitions for forgather

forgather for·gath·er

Spelling: [fawr-gath -er]
IPA: /fɔrˈgæð ər/

Forgather is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 361 anagrams from letters in forgather (aefghorrt).

Definitions for forgather

verb (used without object)

  1. to gather together; convene; assemble.
  2. to encounter someone, especially by chance.

Origin of forgather

First recorded in 1505-15; for- + gather

Examples for forgather

Our parting was not as it had been before, when we knew that sooner or later we should forgather in one place or the other.

Barty was a man's man par excellence, and loved to forgather with men.

It is quite remarkable how the Australian seems to forgather with the Scotsman wherever in France he meets him.

On the 17th of January we should forgather in Constantinople.

There we pitched camp, and, as the flies lacked, built a friendship-fire about which to forgather when the day was done.

No longer would she forgather with the neighbors over a pot of tea for a pleasant vindictive chat.

And yet, although he loved best to forgather with those of his own sex, woman meant much for him!

On the Riva, where I was wont to forgather with many of them, they finally got to calling me "Wa-hoo."

Doctors and chaplains and the teamsters, and Dick Ewell will forgather all right ——!

There was no joking here, nor that elephantine persiflage which marks rough men when they forgather in the wilderness.

Word Value for forgather
Scrable

16

Words with friends

16

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