convenience

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Etymology

From Latin convenientia, from conveniens (“suitable”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”).

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Noun

convenience (plural conveniences)

1. the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient
   • Shakespeare

     Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.

2. anything that makes for an easier life
   • Cowper

     Thus first Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs […]

   • Jonathan Swift

     A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences.

   Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience.

3. a convenient time, especially in the phrase at one's convenience
4. (chiefly UK) a public toilet

Derived terms

• convenience food
• convenience store
• flag of convenience
• marriage of convenience

Related terms

• convene
• convenient
• convent
• convention

Translations

quality of being suitable, useful or convenient

• Bulgarian: удобство (bg) n (udobstvo)
• Catalan: conveniència (ca) f
• Finnish: kätevyys (fi)
• Hebrew: נוחות (nokhut) f

• Polish: wygoda f
• Russian: удобство (ru) (udóbstvo) n , пригодность (ru) (prigódnost') f 
• Spanish: conveniencia (es)

anything that makes for an easier life

• Bulgarian: улеснение (bg) n (ulesnenie)
• Catalan: conveniència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 便利 (cmn) (biànlì), 方便 (cmn) (fāngbiàn)

• Finnish: mukavuus (fi)
• French: commodité (fr) f, avantage (fr) m

• German: Annehmlichkeit (de) f, Bequemlichkeit (de) f
• Greek: ευκολία (el) (efkolía) f , άνεση (el) (ánesi) f 
• Japanese: 便利なこと (ja) (べんりなこと, benri-na koto)
• Polish: udogodnienie n
• Russian: удобство (ru) (udóbstvo) n 
• Spanish: comodidad (es) f, conveniencia (es)

convenient time

• Finnish: sopiva aika (fi); silloin kun Teille sopii (fi) (at your convenience)
• Greek: άνεση (el) (ánesi) f 

• Russian: возможность (ru) (vozmóžnost') f 

public toilet

• Bulgarian: обществена тоалетна (bg) (obštestvena toaletna)
• Finnish: mukavuuslaitos (fi)

• Russian: удобства (ru) (udóbstva) n pl 

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: راحة (ar) (raaHa) f (leisure)
• Swedish: bekvämlighet
• Interlingua: convenientia

• Esperanto: oprtuno, oportuneco
• Norwegian: bekvemmelighet

External links

• convenience in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• convenience at OneLook Dictionary Search