ingathering

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noun

The gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ingather

    And, across the gleaming beaches, lo! the mighty flow and fall Of the great ingathering waters thundering under Wamberal!

    1882, Henry Kendall, The Poems of Henry Kendall
nouningathering (countable and uncountable, plural ingatherings)

plural ingatherings

  1. countableuncountableThe gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest.

    Not until the ingathering are we talking about Eden.

    1994 July 1, Adam Langer, “The Last Days of the House of David”, in Chicago Reader
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    From that day and hour it was clear that there was not to be so successful an ingathering after all.

    1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

    The peasant obtained also the seed, but this he was obliged to return to the state after the ingathering of the harvest.

    1920, Emile Joseph Dillon, The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference

    ... infuses a rich ingathering of information and analysis with the narrative power of a McMurtry, ...

    2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes

Synonyms & antonyms

nounrequest for a sum of money

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

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Chicago

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