SYNODALS 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 meeting of elected or appointed representatives

• the legislature of the United States government

• a national legislative assembly

• the social act of assembling for some common purpose

• 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 legislative assembly in certain countries

• a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

• 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