Word.ws English Dictionary

reconvene

UK/ɹiː.kənˈviːn/US/ˌɹi.kənˈvin/

reconvene verb: to resume something that has been convened and then paused.

Verb

reconvene (third-person singular simple present reconvenes, present participle reconvening, simple past and past participle reconvened)

  1. (transitive) To resume something that has been convened and then paused.
    • dividing into a finite number of parts and then reconvening them,2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 252b
  2. (intransitive) To come together again.
    • We will reconvene after lunch to discuss the outstanding points on the agenda.

Forms of reconvene

third-person singular presentreconvenes
present participlereconvening
past participlereconvened
pastreconvened

Past tense of reconvene: reconvened

Origin of reconvene

From re- + convene.

Questions about reconvene

What does reconvene mean?
Reconvene means to resume something that has been convened and then paused.
What part of speech is reconvene?
Reconvene is a verb.
How do you pronounce reconvene?
Reconvene is pronounced /ɹiː.kənˈviːn/ (UK).
What is the past tense of reconvene?
The past tense of reconvene is reconvened.

Words near reconvene in the dictionary

  1. reconvalescence
  2. reconvalescent
  3. reconvalescents
  4. reconvalesces
  5. reconvalescing
  6. reconvene
  7. reconvened
  8. reconvenes
  9. reconvening
  10. reconvention
  11. reconventions

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reconvene (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “reconvene.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/reconvene. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.