MEANING
To call people together for a formal meeting or assembly.
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Words that belong together
- convoke an assembly
- convoke a council
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The regent convoked a council before the city gates opened.
They convoked the assembly in a hall still scarred by fire.
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Word forms
- Base
- convoke
- Past tense
- convoked
- Past participle
- convoked
- Present participle
- convoking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- convoke
- Present continuous
- am/is/are convoking
- Present perfect
- have/has convoked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been convoking
- Past
- convoked
- Past continuous
- was/were convoking
- Past perfect
- had convoked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been convoking
- Future
- will convoke
- Future continuous
- will be convoking
- Future perfect
- will have convoked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been convoking
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: convoke; convokes; convoked; convoked; convoking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: convokes.
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