Word Meanings - CONVENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To come together; to meet; to unite. In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton. 2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke.

Additional info about word: CONVENE

1. To come together; to meet; to unite. In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton. 2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke. The Parliament of Scotland now convened. Sir R. Baker. Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene. Thomson. Syn. -- To meet; to assemble; to congregate; to collect; to unite.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVENE)

• Assemble
• Gather
• collect
• congregate
• amass
• muster
• call together
• convoke
• convene
• Collect
• Collate
• gather
• glean
• sum
• infer
• learn
• assemble
• garner
• accumulate
• Concentrate
• converge
• draw
• conglomerate
• condense
• localize
• centralize
• Summon
• Call
• cite
• challenge
• invite
• bid

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONVENE)

• Pass
• allow
• grant
• concede
• Dismiss
• disperse
• relegate
• remit
• disband

Related words: (words related to CONVENE)

• INVITER
  One who, or that which, invites.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• INFEROBRANCHIATA
  A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• INFERRIBLE
  Inferable.
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• GLEANING
  The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
• INFERTILELY
  In an infertile manner.
• DECOLLATED
  Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• CAMASS
  A blue-flowered liliaceous plant of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. Note: The Eastern cammass is Camassia Fraseri.