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Gathering, any type of party or meeting, including: Bee (gathering), an old term which describes a group of people coming together for a task; Salon (gathering), a party associated with French and Italian intellectuals; Global gathering, a music festival in the United Kingdom; Rainbow Gathering; Ricochet Gathering, a music event in the United ...
This is a list of established military terms which have been in use for at least 50 years. Since technology and doctrine have changed over time, not all of them are in current use, or they may have been superseded by more modern terms.
A salon is a gathering of people held by a host. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" (Latin: aut delectare aut prodesse). Salons in the tradition of the French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries are still being conducted.
Mela (Sanskrit: मेला) is a Sanskrit word meaning "gathering" or "to meet" or a "fair". It is used in the Indian subcontinent for all sizes of gatherings and can be religious, commercial, cultural or sport-related. In rural traditions melas or village fairs were (and in some cases still are) of great importance.
A meeting refers to a gathering with a specific agenda and not just mere gathering of people casually talking to each other. [1] Meetings may occur face-to-face or virtually, as mediated by communications technology, such as a telephone conference call, a skyped conference call or a videoconference. One Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a ...
A potluck is a communal gathering where each guest or group contributes a different, often homemade, dish of food to be shared. Other names for a "potluck" include: potluck dinner, pitch-in, shared lunch, spread, faith supper, carry-in dinner, [1] covered-dish-supper, [2] fuddle, Jacob's Join, [3] bring a plate, [4] and fellowship meal.
The word ‘coven’ is derived from Old French and in the 1500s meant a “meeting, gathering, assembly”. Around 1660 it also came to mean “a gathering of witches”. [4] The word ‘stead’ comes from the Old English term stede, meaning “place, position”. [5]
A coven (/ k ʌ v ən /) is a group or gathering of witches.The word "coven" (from Anglo-Norman covent, cuvent, from Old French covent, from Latin conventum = convention) remained largely unused in English until 1921 when Margaret Murray promoted the idea that all witches across Europe met in groups of thirteen which they called "covens".