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gathered meaning

EN[ˈɡæðɚd] [ˈɡæðəd]
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    Definition of gathered in English Dictionary

  • VerbSUF-red
    1. simple past tense and past participle of gather.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore gatheredSUPmost gathered
      1. (Quakerism) focused, centered, achieving a state of shared mysticism.
        1. Today evidence for a gathered meeting comes from the phenomenon which the psychologist Carl F. Jung described as "synchronicity", a connecting principle or communication without any apparent external cause.
    3. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • Bare-chested children and their parents gathered in doorways, on roofs and in windows as he passed, watched warily by Brazilian troops carrying submachine guns. - New York Times, 09/03/2007 [1]
        • And last night, company executives gathered in Atlanta to reilluminate an airport sign that has long been a landmark there.
        • A recent arrangement of soaring glass vases, green calla lilies, green anthuriums, pale green cymbidium orchids and gnarled, sandblasted manzanita branches had guests gathered around it in awe.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adjectives
        • Verbs
          • Verb forms
            • Participles
              • Past participles
              • Verb simple past forms
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          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of gathered for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "gathered" is an adjective. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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