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together
[ tuh-geth-er ]
adverb
- into or in one gathering, company, mass, place, or body:
to call the people together.
- into or in union, proximity, contact, or collision, as two or more things:
to sew things together.
- into or in relationship, association, business, or agreement, etc., as two or more persons:
to bring strangers together.
- taken or considered collectively or conjointly:
This one cost more than all the others together.
- (of a single thing) into or in a condition of unity, compactness, or coherence: The argument does not hold together well.
to squeeze a thing together;
The argument does not hold together well.
- at the same time; simultaneously:
You cannot have both together.
- without intermission or interruption; continuously; uninterruptedly:
for days together.
- in cooperation; with united action; conjointly:
to undertake a task together.
- with mutual action; mutually; reciprocally: to multiply two numbers together.
to confer together;
to multiply two numbers together.
adjective
- Slang. mentally and emotionally stable and well organized:
a together person.
together
/ əˈɡɛðə /
adverb
- with cooperation and interchange between constituent elements, members, etc
we worked together
- in or into contact or union with each other
to stick papers together
- in or into one place or assembly; with each other
the people are gathered together
- at the same time
we left school together
- considered collectively or jointly
all our wages put together couldn't buy that car
- continuously
working for eight hours together
- closely, cohesively, or compactly united or held
water will hold the dough together
- mutually or reciprocally
to multiply 7 and 8 together
- informal.organized
to get things together
- together within addition to
adjective
- slang.self-possessed and well-organized; mentally and emotionally stable
she's a very together lady
Usage
Confusables Note
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of together1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with together , also see get one's act together ; get together ; go together ; hang together ; keep body and soul together ; knock together ; live together ; piece together ; pull oneself together ; pull together ; put our heads together ; put together ; put two and two together ; scare up (scrape together) ; stick together ; string together ; throw together .Example Sentences
Friday they outscored New Orleans by two in their minutes together.
The point guard shouted toward her teammates while coaches huddled together separately.
The standard practice in the NHS today is to place two wristbands around babies' ankles immediately after birth and keep mother and child together through their hospital stay.
Noguchi said humanities councils across the country might band together to ask for a court injunction to prevent the funding loss, which he said would be “devastating.”
The five-time Oscar nominee and her husband, theater director Thomas Kail, reportedly welcomed their latest child together via surrogate more than a month ago.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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