convene
verbEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, convenire (“come together”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.
- derived from *gʷm̥yéti✻
- derived from convenio
- borrowed from convenir
Definitions
To come together
To come together; to meet; to unite.
- In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose
To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
- The Parliament of Scotland now convened.
- Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.
To cause to assemble
To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
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To summon judicially to meet or appear.
To make a convention
To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.
- To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.
The neighborhood
- neighborconvenience
- neighborconvenient
- neighborconvention
- neighborconventional
- neighborsupervene
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for convene. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA