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Spell Bee Word: Gather

Gather (verb): to bring things or people together in one place, or to come together.


What does gather mean?

Word: Gather

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Gather means to bring things or people together in one place, or to come together.

Synonyms: collect, assemble

How do you spell gather?

Syllables: gath - er

Tricky part: The middle sound is th, as in this, so it needs a t and an h, not a d.

Watch out for: gadher, gader, gafer

Memory tip: This, that and the all have the same th sound that sits in the middle of gather.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. gather dust: To stay unused for a long time. Example: "My old cricket bat is gathering dust in the cupboard."

Gather in a sentence

Example 1: Gather your books before the bell rings.

Example 2: Children gathered around the magician.

Example 3: We gathered shells on the beach in Goa.

Fun Fact

Honeybees gather nectar from flowers and carry it back to the hive to make honey.

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Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

gather

a) fetch
b) join
c) pick
d) scatter

Show answer

d) scatter. To gather is to bring together, and to scatter is to spread apart.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) gathir
b) gather
c) gathur
d) gathar

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b) gather. Gather ends in er, the way mother does.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

g_ther

a) a
b) o
c) u
d) e

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a) a. Gather has the short a of cat.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

In the evening we gather to hear Grandma's storys.

a) evening
b) storys
c) gather
d) hear

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b) storys. One story, many stories: the y changes to ies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these shows people gathering?

a) friends going home after a party
b) friends arriving for a birthday party
c) a girl sleeping in her bed
d) a boy walking to school alone

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b) friends arriving for a birthday party

2. Before winter, squirrels gather nuts. Why?

a) to feed the birds
b) to build their nests
c) to eat later in winter
d) to play games with

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c) to eat later in winter

Associated Words

Words that end in -ther: grandfather, whether, grandmother, neither

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: assemble

More words from this list

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