gatherer

Other forms of gatherer

plural

gatherers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gatherer

What does gatherer mean?

gatherer means "a person who gathers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gatherer?

gatherer has 3 syllables: gat-he-rer. The stress falls on "gat". In IPA it is /ˈɡæðɚɚ/.

What is another word for gatherer?

Close synonyms include collector, accumulator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gatherer a common word?

gatherer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.