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Another word for conclave

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Noun

  1. A number of persons who have come or been gathered together

      1. An informal social gathering or meeting
      2. (Informal) A meeting or gathering; a party or social function.
      3. A meeting.
      1. An armored cavalry unit that corresponds to a company of infantry
      2. A group of soldiers.
      3. A body of soldiers
      1. The persons or things assembled; assemblage
      2. A gathering or collection:
      3. A gathering, especially of troops, for service, inspection, review, or roll call.
      1. An assembly; a gathering to discuss or decide matters
      2. An encounter between people, even accidental.
      3. The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.
      1. A number of elements with similar properties, forming one of the vertical columns of the periodic table
      2. (Mathematics) A set, together with a binary associative operation, such that the set is closed under the operation, the set contains an identity element for the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element with respect to the operation. The integers form a group under the operation of ordinary addition.
      3. A number of individuals or things considered or classed together because of similarities:
      1. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
      2. An assembly of persons; a meeting.
      3. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
      1. A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation:
      2. A group of people attending a public function; an audience:
      3. A large number of things positioned or considered together.
      1. The district represented at such an assembly.
      2. A group of people convoked, especially the members of a college or university community who are assembled for a ceremony.
      3. A group that has been convoked; esp., an ecclesiastical or academic assembly
      1. An assembly, often periodical, of members or delegates, as of a political, social, professional, or religious group
      2. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom:
      3. The body of persons attending such an assembly:
      1. A single meeting, as of a political party or other group.
      2. The body of Senators and Representatives during any of the two-year terms of Representatives
      3. The national legislative body of a nation, especially a republic.
      1. A body of assembled people or things; a gathering.
      2. A division of an order, made up of a group of monasteries
      3. (Bible) The whole body or assembly of Israelites
      1. A national or district association of Mennonite or certain other Protestant churches
      2. A national or district governing body of the Methodist Church
      3. An assembly of clerical or of clerical and lay members from a particular district in various Protestant churches.
      1. (Mil.) A body of troops; specif., the lowest administrative unit, as of infantry, normally composed of two or more platoons and a headquarters
      2. A group associated for some purpose, as to form a commercial or industrial firm
      3. A group of persons:
      1. The physical aspect of a person as opposed to the spirit; the flesh.
      2. A group of individuals regarded as an entity; a corporation.
      3. A number of persons, concepts, or things regarded as a group:
      1. A group of persons gathered together for a common reason, as for a legislative, religious, educational, or social purpose.
      2. The act of putting together such set of pieces.
      3. A legislative body
      1. A collection of items from a single datable component of an archaeological site.
      2. A form of art involving the assembly and arrangement of unrelated objects, parts, and materials in a kind of sculptured collage
      3. A group of persons or things gathered together; assembly
    See also:

    collect

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Another word for conclave

Noun
      1. An assembly; a gathering to discuss or decide matters
      2. The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.
      3. A place or instance of junction or intersection.
      1. A discussion or conference, especially one between enemies over terms of truce or other matters.
      2. A talk or conference for the purpose of discussing a specific matter or of settling a dispute, as a military conference with an enemy, under a truce, for discussing terms
      1. An exchange of views.
      2. A meeting of committees from both branches of a legislature to reconcile the differences between bills passed by both branches
      3. A meeting for consultation or discussion.
    See also:

    gathering

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Sentence Examples

  • He participated in the conclave which followed the death of Innocent VIII.

  • He attended the conclave of 1878, but was too late to vote for the new pope.

  • He was almost the only one who succeeded in making a firm stand in the tumultuous conclave of 1378; but the deliberation with which he made up his mind as to the validity of the election of Urban VI.

  • After a protracted conclave Giovanni Maria del Monte was elected, on the 7th of February 1550, as Pope Julius III.

  • From Messina he proceeded by sea in order to be present at the expected conclave at Venice, where he arrived in the spring of 1799, aged, ill and almost penniless.

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