convene

Verb

Verb Forms: convened, convening, convenes

To come or bring together for a meeting or assembly.
meet formally
- "The council convened last week"
call together
- "The students were convened in the auditorium"
To come together; to meet; to unite.
To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
To summon judicially to meet or appear.
To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.

Examples

The Scrabble club will convene next Tuesday to discuss advanced strategies.
To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.

Origin / 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-.

Synonyms

convoke

Scrabble Score: 12

convene: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
convene: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
convene: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

convene: valid Words With Friends Word