Gathering Place

  

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Gathering Place

Definition: Gathering Place

Gathering Place

Noun

1. A favorite haunt where people gather.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Gathering Place

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Focus

Noun: focus; point of convergence; corradiation; center; gathering place, resort haunt retreat; venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot; (store); trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place of assignation; point de reunion; issue.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Gathering Place

Specialty definitions using "gathering place": HOST/HOSTESS. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Gathering Place

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gathering Place of the Waters: Thirty Milwaukee Poets (reference)

  • Graham Kerr's Gathering Place Comfort Food (reference)

  • Kanuga : story of a gathering place (reference)

  • Oahu the Gathering Place (reference)

  • The Alpine Tavern : photographs of a social gathering place (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Gathering Place

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Crane at a "central" gathering place for sugar cane crop, vicinity of San Sebastion [i.e. Sebastian], Puerto Rico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Gathering Place

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Burma

In Rangoon during the year, authorities closed more than 80 home-churches (a traditional gathering place for many Christians) because their operators did not have proper authorizations to hold religious meetings. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gathering Place

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the gathering place

63
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Gathering Place

Language Translations for "gathering place"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏ملتقى (concourse, meeting place, rendezvous). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

perkampungan (group of villages, settlement). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

溜まり (arrears, collected things), 溜り (arrears, collected things). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たまり (arrears, collected things). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atheringgay aceplay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Gathering Place

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Pentatoma rufipes, Tropicoris rufipes. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Gathering Place

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-g-h-i-l-n-p-r-t"

-2 letters: telegraphing.

-3 letters: paragenetic, praelecting, telegraphic.

-4 letters: altarpiece, antechapel, aphaeretic, arpeggiate, chaptering, chatelaine, epicentral, gearchange, lacerating, leathering, lighterage, penetralia, preethical, pregenital, preheating, prelecting, regelating, relegating, repatching, reteaching, telphering.

-5 letters: analeptic, analgetic, antiglare, archangel, caliphate, carpeting, cartilage, chatelain, chelating, clientage, earthling, encephala, gathering, genetical, graphical, haltering, hepaticae, heretical, interlace, laagering, lathering, lechering, lengthier, lethargic, lightener, paltering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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