convenience
/kənˈvinjəns/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.02 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make convenient.
Example Sentences
- "Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience."
- "Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape."
- "Thus first Necessity invented stools, / Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs[…]"
- "A pair of spectacles[…] and several other little conveniences."
- "...let Fanchette come in a hackney-coach in the morning, and I will direct the housekeeper to send you something of every thing—plate, candlesticks, lamps, damask—and you won't take it amiss if we should happen to have game or poultry come up that I put that amongst the conveniences;..."
- "There was a bookshelf with a number of tattered volumes, and a few conveniences in the way of cupboards, which appeared to have been contrived out of a packing case by a hasty man, with a blunt axe."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin convenientia, from conveniens (“suitable”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”). Doublet of convenance.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *gʷem-, convenientia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kənˈvinjəns/
- British English: /kənˈviːnɪəns/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage