conventicle

1. 1.

   a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship

   Broadermeeting
2. 2.

   a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers)

   Synonymsmeetinghouse

   Broaderplace of worship

Other forms of conventicle

plural

conventicles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conventicle

What does conventicle mean?

conventicle means "a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conventicle?

conventicle has 4 syllables: con-ven-ti-cle. The stress falls on "ven".

What is another word for conventicle?

Close synonyms include meetinghouse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conventicle a common word?

conventicle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.