conventicle

noun

Definition of conventiclenext
as in house

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  1. house
  2. meetinghouse
  3. hall
  4. camp
Noun
  • Feral cats usually try to stay away from houses and people, and often have an ear tip to shows that they've been neutered and returned.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In April 2023, a six-person cohort gathered at Laverty’s house in West London armed with ingredients, and began cooking different recipes out of Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa: How Easy Is That?
    Andrew Zucker, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of house
Noun
  • Pilgrim Church had met in many different locations since 1834, and in 1848 the members voted to build a meetinghouse where Parker had been buried, at the present location of Pilgrim Church, 2.5 miles southeast of Elkhart.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Although the city has lost other historic buildings in recent years, according to Building Salt Lake, the meetinghouse was not supposed to be one of them.
    Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
Definition of meetinghouse
Noun
  • Down the hall is a row of metal black doors that open to windowless cells.
    Claire Harbage, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The theater opened in 1950 as a movie hall, and today has an art gallery space and stadium seating.
    Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of hall
Noun
  • Instead, such measures will disrupt our economy, raise our living costs, create internment camps to hold immigrants in the U.S. because receiving countries will not accept them, and fuel instability abroad, leading to even more immigration pressures at our borders.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • At camp, Rachel, who is a huge superfan, gives Teeny a full YouTube tutorial on how to make a fire, and Teeny seems poised to win.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of camp
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