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Meeting

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Broader term 9

Affair 76% connected

That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; --…

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Assembly 76% connected

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for…

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Convergence 76% connected

Alt. of Convergency

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Convergency 76% connected

The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point.

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Converging 76% connected

of Converge

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Function 76% connected

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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Gathering 76% connected

of Gather

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Occasion 76% connected

A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.

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Alignment 76% connected

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adj…

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Appointment 76% connected

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

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Caucus 76% connected

A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a n…

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Conclave 76% connected

The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.

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Concourse 76% connected

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.

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Conference 76% connected

The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

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Confluence 76% connected

The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

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Congress 76% connected

A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.

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Conjunction 76% connected

The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.

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Conventicle 76% connected

A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.

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Convention 76% connected

The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

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Council 76% connected

An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.

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Date 76% connected

The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

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Engagement 76% connected

The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

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Forum 76% connected

A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

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Plenum 76% connected

That state in which every part of space is supposed to be full of matter; -- opposed to vacuum.

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Rendezvous 76% connected

A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.

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Seance 76% connected

A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.

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Session 76% connected

The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

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Sitting 76% connected

of Sit

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Summit 76% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Visit 76% connected

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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Derivationally related 4

Chance 74% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

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Chance 74% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

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Meet 74% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Meet 74% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Synonym 4

Confluence 92% connected

The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

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Congress 92% connected

A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.

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Encounter 92% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

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Merging 92% connected

of Merge

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