convene
/kənˈvin/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom."
- "The Parliament of Scotland now convened."
- "Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene."
- "The solicitor, a Mr. Gilmer, was not well known to us. He was from Abbottsville; we saw him only when court convened, and that rarely, for court was of no special interest to Jem and me."
- "To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings."
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-.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kənˈvin/
- British English: /kənˈviːn/