conventicle

noun

Definition of conventiclenext
as in house

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  1. house
  2. meetinghouse
  3. hall
  4. camp
Noun
  • Two Indian tourists picked her up and took her to a guest house, where another eight men were waiting, all of them drunk.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • Natalie Boren, an executive VP at recruiter Career Group Companies, responsible for fashion staffing, is surprised how many interviewees cannot muster basic information about a fashion house’s most recent work — or even the creative director’s name.
    — Cami Fateh, Vogue, 22 July 2026
Definition of house
Noun
  • Plans call for an 82,000-square-foot, multistory temple, including a meetinghouse and an accompanying ancillary building.
    — Scott McIntosh, Idaho Statesman, 26 May 2026
  • Four people died in a shooting at a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan last September.
    — Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2026
Definition of meetinghouse
Noun
  • The town hall followed one Sunday in Houston in which a majority of the attendees were Black.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 July 2026
  • Its attendance is capped at around 160,000 due to capacity limitations, which also limit the number of exhibitors in the 600,000 square foot exhibit hall.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of hall
Noun
  • Here’s a look at some key position battles to follow throughout camp and the preseason, plus some players on the fringe who will need to stand out.
    — Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • Rehab, 48, whose home was destroyed in a drone strike at a displacement camp in El-Obeid in June, said the past few weeks had been among the hardest since the war began.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
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