forgather

verb /fəˈɡaðə/

1. To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate.

   intransitive

   Dean’s California—wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

Where it comes from

From Scots forgather, foregather (“to gather up, assemble”), equivalent to for- + gather. Cognate with Dutch vergaderen (“to assemble”), German vergattern (“to assemble; to assign duty”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry forgather (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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