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convene /kənˈviːn /verbCome or bring together for a meeting or activity; assemble: [with object]: he had convened a secret meeting of military personnel [no object]: the committee had convened for its final plenary session...- The leaders of three religions A, B and C decided to convene a meeting to bring about peace.
- The mediator will usually meet with the opposing parties separately at first before convening a meeting where they are bought together.
- Thus, a meeting convened by the finance secretary here today proved inconclusive.
Synonyms summon, call, call together, order; hold formal convoke assemble, gather, meet, get together, come together, congregate, collect, muster rare foregather OriginLate Middle English: from Latin convenire 'assemble, agree, fit', from con- 'together' + venire 'come'. RhymesAberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean |