🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

闭门会议

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bìmén huìyì

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Conclave/ˈkɒŋ.kleɪv/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #8500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"董事会成员举行了一场闭门会议。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A private, exclusive, or secret meeting of a group of people, particularly for discussion or decision-making.

    "The corporate executives held a closed-door conclave to discuss the impending merger."
  2. 2

    The private assembly of Roman Catholic cardinals summoned to elect a new pope.

    "Smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that the papal conclave had concluded."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'conclavē', meaning a locked room (from 'com-' together + 'clāvis' key). Originally referring to the private quarters where cardinals meet to elect a pope, the term evolved in English to denote any private or exclusive meeting.

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