COUNCIL OF TRENT Synonyms

• a confidential or secret meeting

• a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda)

• an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members

• a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic

• a large formal assembly

• something regarded as a normative example

• (diplomacy) an international agreement

• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

• the act of convening

• a body serving in an administrative capacity

• (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine

• a meeting of people for consultation

• a public meeting or assembly for open discussion

• a public facility to meet for open discussion

• a group of persons together in one place

• the social act of assembling

• the act of gathering something

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

• a formally arranged gathering

• a small informal social gathering

• a casual or unexpected convergence

• the social act of assembling for some common purpose

• the act of joining together as one

• a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)

• the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

• the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

• a meeting of heads of governments

• reach the summit (of a mountain)

• a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations