Convene vs Rendezvous - What's the difference?
convene | rendezvous |
To come together; to meet; to unite.
* Isaac Newton
To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
* Sir R. Baker
* Thomson
To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
To summon judicially to meet or appear.
A meeting or date.
An agreement to meet; a location or time agreed upon to meet.
A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
* Sir Walter Scott
(label) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
* Clarendon
(obsolete) retreat; refuge
To meet at an agreed time and place.
As a verb convene
is to come together; to meet; to unite.As a noun rendezvous is
rendezvous.convene
English
Verb
(conven)- 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 .
Synonyms
* to meet * to assemble * to congregate * to collect * to unite * to summon * to convokeDerived terms
* convention * convener, convenorrendezvous
English
Noun
- I have a rendezvous with a friend in three weeks.
- “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”
- an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
- The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (military) RV (abbreviation)Usage notes
The plural rendezvous'' (/-vu/) is normally ''rendezvous'' (/-vuz/). Rarely, the form ''rendezvouses is encountered.Verb
- Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.