convene

  1. (intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
  2. (intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
  3. (transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
  4. (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
  5. (transitive) To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.

Frequency

28k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kənˈviːn/
Etymology

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-.

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