cortege vs gathering

cortege and gathering both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cortege	Yes	No	No	No
gathering	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gathering is a hypernym of cortege; that is, gathering is a word with a broader meaning than cortege:

Other hypernyms of cortege include assemblage.

cortege (noun)	gathering (noun)
the group following and attending to some important person	the social act of assembling
a funeral procession	the act of gathering something
	sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
	a group of persons together in one place