social gathering

Questions about social gathering

What does social gathering mean?

social gathering means "a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship".

What is another word for social gathering?

Close synonyms include social affair. 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 social gathering a common word?

social gathering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.