Meanings
verbconvive (third-person singular simple present convives, present participle conviving, simple past and past participle convived)
present singular third person convives · participle present conviving · participle past convived · past convived
- obsoleteTo feast with others
nounconvive (plural convives)
plural convives
- obsoletea participant in a feast or banquet
- obsoletea 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
Origin
- Frenchconvive
- Frenchconvive
- Englishconvive
Borrowed from French convive.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech spolustolovník, spolustolovnice
- spolustolovníkparticipant in a feast or banquet
- spolustolovniceparticipant in a feast or banquet
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with convive
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All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
convive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/convive
MLA
“convive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/convive. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “convive,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/convive.
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