GET TOGETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get together mean? 

• GET TOGETHER (noun)
  The noun GET TOGETHER has 1 sense:

1. a small informal social gathering

  Familiarity information: GET TOGETHER used as a noun is very rare.

• GET TOGETHER (verb)
  The verb GET TOGETHER has 4 senses:

1. get people together

2. get together socially or for a specific purpose

3. work together on a common enterprise of project

4. become part of; become a member of a group or organization

  Familiarity information: GET TOGETHER used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET TOGETHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small informal social gathering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

get together; meeting

Context example:

there was an informal meeting in my living room

Hypernyms ("get together" is a kind of...):

social affair; social gathering (a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "get together"):

appointment; date; engagement (a meeting arranged in advance)

visit (a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice)

lunch meeting; luncheon meeting (a meeting for lunch; usually to conduct business while eating)

power breakfast (a meeting of influential people to conduct business while eating breakfast)

seance; session; sitting (a meeting of spiritualists)

conventicle (a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship)

Derivation:

get together (get together socially or for a specific purpose)

get together (get people together)

• GET TOGETHER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get people together

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

assemble; gather; get together

Context example:

gather the close family members

Cause:

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get together"):

make (form by assembling individuals or constituents)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to get together the prisoners

Derivation:

get together (a small informal social gathering)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get together socially or for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

get together; meet

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get together"):

pick up (meet someone for sexual purposes)

reunite (have a reunion; unite again)

rendezvous (meet at a rendezvous)

call; call in; visit (pay a brief visit)

celebrate; fete (have a celebration)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

get together (a small informal social gathering)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Work together on a common enterprise of project

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces

Context example:

We joined forces with another research group

Hypernyms (to "get together" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Verb group:

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get together"):

collaborate (cooperate as a traitor)

go along; play along (cooperate or pretend to cooperate)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Become part of; become a member of a group or organization

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

fall in; get together; join

Context example:

He joined the Communist Party as a young man

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get together"):

organise; organize; unionise; unionize (form or join a union)

unify; unite (act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief)

infiltrate; penetrate (enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members)

rejoin (join again)

affiliate (join in an affiliation)

band oneself; league together (attach oneself to a group)

sign up (join a club, an activity, etc. with the intention to join or participate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

If you have a partner, get together and splurge on a great dinner.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It is such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And then, you know, when once they get together, there is no end of it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

You go and fix up that laundry, and then we'll get together.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

No—nor to-morrow either; I should think he is very likely to stay a week or more: when these fine, fashionable people get together, they are so surrounded by elegance and gaiety, so well provided with all that can please and entertain, they are in no hurry to separate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The friends were not able to get together for any confidential discourse till all the dancing was over; but then, as they walked about the room arm in arm, Isabella thus explained herself: I do not wonder at your surprise; and I am really fatigued to death.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I will not bore those whom this narrative may reach by an account of our luxurious voyage upon the Booth liner, nor will I tell of our week's stay at Para (save that I should wish to acknowledge the great kindness of the Pereira da Pinta Company in helping us to get together our equipment).

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think that some day the bishops must get together and see about breeding up a new class of curates, who don't take supper, no matter how they may be pressed to, and who will know when girls are tired.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If you have not filed your taxes, this new moon will motivate you to get together with your accountant—you might see a refund!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Look here, let's get together an' frame it up.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)