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convene

UK/kənˈviːn/US/kənˈvin/

convene verb: to come together; to meet; to unite.

Verb

convene (third-person singular simple present convenes, present participle convening, simple past and past participle convened)

  1. (intransitive) 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.1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin]...
  2. (intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
    • The Parliament of Scotland now convened.1670, Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King James
    • Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
  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.
    • To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.

convene meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

convene in Tamil

அழை, ஒன்று சேர், கூட்டு

convene in Urdu

اکٹھا ہونا, جمع ہونا

convene in Bengali

সমবেত হওয়া, সভা আহ্বান করা

convene in Malayalam

ഒന്നിച്ചു കൂടുക, കോടതിയിൽ ഹാജരാവാൻ കല്പന പുറപ്പെടുവിക്കുക, യോഗം വിളിച്ചു കൂട്ടുക
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convene in Kannada
ಬರಹೇಳು, ಒಟ್ಟುಸೇರಿಸು, ಸಮಾವೇಶಗೊಳಿಸು, ಸಭೆಯನ್ನು ಕರೆ
convene in Arabic
اِجْتَمَعَ ijtamaʕa

Examples of convene in a sentence

  • The meeting is convened for late morning.
  • For basic duties, the ephors convened both the Spartan boulê of kings and elders and the assemblies.
  • In a hurriedly convened counter-meet the usually restrained Indian foreign secretary, K.

All 20 example sentences with convene

Forms of convene

third-person singular presentconvenes
present participleconvening
past participleconvened
pastconvened

Past tense of convene: convened

Origin of convene

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-.

Words formed from convene

Questions about convene

What does convene mean?
Convene means to come together; to meet; to unite.
What is convene in Tamil?
Convene in Tamil is அழை, ஒன்று சேர், கூட்டு. See Convene meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is convene?
Convene is a verb.
How do you pronounce convene?
Convene is pronounced /kənˈviːn/ (UK).
What is the past tense of convene?
The past tense of convene is convened.

Words near convene in the dictionary

  1. convels
  2. convenable
  3. convenably
  4. convenance
  5. convenances
  6. convene
  7. convened
  8. convener
  9. conveneries
  10. conveners
  11. convenership

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: convene (page history and authors); convene (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); convene (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Convene (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); convene (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); convene (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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