gatho

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Australia/ˈɡæðəʉ/

noun

A gathering, typically smaller and more relaxed than a party.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

noungatho (plural gathos)

plural gathos

  1. AustraliainformalA gathering, typically smaller and more relaxed than a party.

    2018 Leisha Parkinson, "The Awkward Qs You’ll Be Asked At Your Family Gatho" 5Why, 19 February 2017. Accessed 22 August 2018.

    2 more examples

    "MUSIC, mind and body will converge when a new feel-good ‘gatho’ debuts on the Gold Coast on Australia Day. The inaugural The Gathering Feel Good Festival will bump into Country Paradise Parklands, a sprawling greenfields site at Nerang, on January 26 next year from 11.30am to 10pm."

    2016 November 30, Suzanne Simonot, New Gold Coast music festival to launch on Australia Day at Country Paradise Parklands, Nerang, Gold Coast Bulletin, retrieved 22 Aug 2018

    2017 Angela Mollard, "Our teens are out of control. Why? Because parents are too weak" The Daily Telegraph, 25 March 2018. Accessed 22 August 2018. "A friend who had a successful 15th party for her son — no alcohol, everyone checked off at the door, all bags locked in the spare bedroom, extra parents for security, and a finish time of 10.30pm, told me she recently agreed to a small “gatho” a year later."

Origin

Abbreviation of gathering + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

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APA

gatho. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gatho

MLA

“gatho.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gatho. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gatho,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gatho.

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