Definitions for conference

conference con·fer·ence

Spelling: [kon-fer-uh ns, -fruh ns]
IPA: /ˈkɒn fər əns, -frəns/

Conference is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in conference (cceeefnnor).

Definitions for conference

noun

  1. a meeting for consultation or discussion:
  2. the act of conferring or consulting together; consultation, especially on an important or serious matter.
  3. Government. a meeting, as of various committees, to settle disagreements between the two branches of the legislature.
  4. an association of athletic teams; league:
  5. Ecclesiastical. an official assembly of clergy or of clergy and laity, customary in many Christian denominations. a group of churches whose representatives regularly meet in such an assembly.

verb (used without object)

  1. to hold or participate in a conference or series of conferences.

Origin of conference

From the Medieval Latin word conferentia, dating back to 1530-40. See confer, -ence

Examples for conference

He had just left a conference of high officers, and he came upon a mission.

Boehner was unanimously selected by the conference as its official nominee for speaker in the coming Congress.

Long was the conference, and sleepless the couch, of Mr. and Mrs. Morton.

After some animated debate at the conference, Lelaie declared, with some frustration, “If you push on the stick, you will fly.”

Just this year we sponsored the Reaching Out MBA conference and in that conference I introduced my fiancé to everybody.

She stopped in the roadway, as if to put an end to the conference.

Certainly some of those attending the conference had experience walking that line in the past.

“What we want is to administer a tonic to the conference in Milan,” he said airily.

He managed the conference with his usual consummate dexterity.

At a conference in London the following week, a senior retired U.S. Air Force commander pooh-poohed counterstealth efforts.

Word Value for conference
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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