together
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʊˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /təˈɡɛð.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /tʊˈɡɛðɚ/
ipa: /təˈɡɛðɚ/
rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: togither
Etymology: From Late Middle English together, from earlier togedere, togadere, from Old English tōgædere (“together”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōgadura, *tegadura, from Proto-Germanic *tō (“to”) + *gadar (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, keep”), equivalent to to-₂ + gather. Cognate with Scots thegither (“together”), Old Frisian togadera (whence West Frisian togearre (“together”)), Dutch tegader (“together”), Middle Low German tōgāder (“together”), Middle High German zegater (“together”). Compare also Old English ætgædere (“together”), Old English ġeador (“together”). More at gather.
Senses: examples: text: We went to school together.
text: We can't all talk together; let's take turns politely.
text: […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
ref: 1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:
text: “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.
examples: text: He put all the parts together.
text: Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
ref: a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
examples: text: Bob and Andy went into business together.  Jenny and Mark have been together since they went on holiday to Mexico.
text: A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
examples: text: It has been raining four days together
text: He would weep for hours together, and I verily believe that to the very end this spoilt child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 218:
glosses: Without intermission or interruption; continuously; uninterruptedly.
Synonyms: sense: at the same time
word: at the same time
word: concurrently
word: simultaneously
sense: in a relationship or partnership
word: collectively
word: jointly
Derived terms: all together
all together now
altogether
band together
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the family that lays together stays together
the family that prays together stays together
the family that sleeps together keeps together
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two brain cells to rub together
two pennies to rub together
untogether
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when two Sundays come together
whip together
work together