plenary
UK/ˈpliːnəɹi//ˈpliːnəɹi/
plenary adjective: fully attended by a plenum; for everyone's attendance.
Adjective
plenary (comparative more plenary, superlative most plenary)
- Fully attended by a plenum; for everyone's attendance.
- Complete; full; entire; absolute.
- The method of treating a subject should be plenary or full.1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […]...
Noun
plenary (plural plenaries)
- A plenary session.
- After lunch, we will all be in the main auditorium listening to the plenary.
- Part of a lesson, usually at or towards the end, designed to review or evaluate the learning that has taken place.
- Alternatively, the plenary may be used as preparation for the next lesson, and it might support the children to discuss some vocabulary with the TA to help them prepare.2004, Brian Sharp, Meeting SEN in the Curriculum: Maths, →ISBN, page 114
- A good plenary doesn't just consolidate learning in that one lesson; it provides feedback for the teacher across a period of time and offers the chance to resolve any misconceptions.2010, Caroline Bentley-Davies, How to be an amazing teacher, →ISBN
plenary meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam
plenary in Hindi
- plenary
- पूर्ण pūrṇ
plenary in Urdu
- مکمل, پورا, سارا
plenary in Telugu
- ప్లీనరీ
plenary in Malayalam
- unlimited, uncondition-al, unrestricted
- നിരുപാധിക, ഉപാധികളില്ലാത്ത, വ്യവസ്ഥകളില്ലാത്ത, അപരിമിത, അനിയന്ത്രിത, നിബന്ധനകളില്ലാത്ത
- complete, full, entire
- എല്ലാ അംഗങ്ങളും സംബന്ധിച്ച, നിറഞ്ഞ, പൂർണ്ണമായ, അഖില, മുഴുവൻ, സകലം
More languagesFewer languages
- plenary in Kannada
- ನೆರೆದ, ತುಂಬಿದ, ಎಲ್ಲ ಸೇರಿದ, ಸರ್ವಸದಸ್ಯರ
- plenary in Punjabi
- ਪਲੈਨਰੀ
- plenary in Indonesian
- lengkap, paripurna, pleno
- plenary in Persian
- عمومی 'omumi
- plenary in Vietnamese
- toàn thể
Examples of plenary in a sentence
- The conference consists of five regular sessions spread across multiple rooms and two plenary sessions in the main auditorium.
- After afternoon tea we all combine again for a plenary session, followed by the UniForum NZ AGM.
- The fifth plenary session of the Provincial Assembly opened at Wufeng near Taichung in central Taiwan.
Forms of plenary
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more plenary |
| superlative | most plenary |
| Noun | |
| plural | plenaries |
Origin of plenary
From Middle English plenarie, plenarye, from Late Latin plēnārius, from Latin plēnus (“full”).
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Questions about plenary
- What does plenary mean?
- Plenary means fully attended by a plenum; for everyone's attendance.
- What is plenary in Hindi?
- Plenary in Hindi is पूर्ण (pūrṇ). See Plenary meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is plenary?
- Plenary can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce plenary?
- Plenary is pronounced /ˈpliːnəɹi/ (UK).
Words near plenary in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: plenary (page history and authors); पूर्ण (Hindi) (page history and authors); plenary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plenary (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); plenary (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); plenary (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plenary (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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