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convive en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kənˈvaɪv/

Etymology

Borrowed from French convive.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) a participant in a feast or banquet
  2. (obsolete) a feast or banquet
    • First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent; There, in the full convive we; afterwards, As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall Concur together, severally entreat him c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], lines 271-4:

Forms

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convives Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

convivial

Translations (2)

cs spolustolovník (participant in a feast or banquet) · cs spolustolovnice (participant in a feast or banquet)

convive en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /kənˈvaɪv/

Etymology

Borrowed from French convive.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To feast with others

Forms

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conviving Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
convived Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
convived Tense=Past lexicographic
convives Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic