See convocation in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
A number of persons who have come or been gathered together:
assemblage, assembly, body, company, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convention, crowd, gathering, group, meeting, muster, troop. (Informal) get-together. See collectA formal assemblage of the members of a group:
assembly, conference, congress, convention, meeting. See assemble
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