convenience

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈviːnɪəns/
• IPA^(key): /kənˈvinjəns/

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• Hyphenation: con‧ve‧nience

Noun

convenience (countable and uncountable, plural conveniences)

1. The quality of being convenient.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

   Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience.

   • (Can we date this quote by Cowper and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

2. Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
   • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences.

3. A convenient time.

   We will come over and begin the work at your convenience.

4. (chiefly British) Clipping of public convenience: a public lavatory.

Synonyms

• (the quality of being convenient): amenity
• (public lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom

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

• Assamese: সুবিধা (xubidha)
• Basque: egokitasun
• Belarusian: зру́чнасць f (zrúčnascʹ)
• Bulgarian: удобство (bg) n (udobstvo)
• Catalan: conveniència f
• Dutch: geschikt (nl)
• Finnish: kätevyys (fi)
• French: convenance (fr) f
• Greek: άνεση (el) f (ánesi)
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• Hebrew: נוחות (he) f (nokhut)
• Irish: aosáid f
• Italian: conveniente (it)
• Japanese: 便宜 (ja) (bengi), 便利 (ja) (benri), 利便 (ja) (riben)
• Latvian: ērtība f
• Polish: wygoda (pl) f
• Portuguese: conveniência (pt) f, comodidade (pt) f
• Russian: удо́бство (ru) n (udóbstvo), приго́дность (ru) f (prigódnostʹ)
• Spanish: conveniencia

anything that makes for an easier life

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

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

• Dutch: handig (nl)
• Finnish: mukavuus (fi)
• French: commodité (fr) f, avantage (fr) m
• German: Annehmlichkeit (de) f, Bequemlichkeit (de) f
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• Greek: ευκολία (el) f (efkolía), άνεση (el) f (ánesi)
• Italian: comodità (it)
• Japanese: 便宜 (ja) (bengi), 便利 (ja) (benri), 利便 (ja) (riben)
• Latin: commodum n
• Latvian: ērtība f
• Polish: udogodnienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: conveniência (pt) f, comodidade (pt) f
• Russian: удо́бство (ru) n (udóbstvo)
• Spanish: comodidad (es) f, conveniencia
• Swedish: bekvämlighet (sv) c

convenient time

• Dutch: wanneer het goed uitkomt
• Finnish: sopiva aika; silloin kun Teille sopii (at your convenience)
• Greek: άνεση (el) f (ánesi)
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• Italian: a tempo debito
• Russian: возмо́жность (ru) f (vozmóžnostʹ)

public toilet

• Bulgarian: обществена тоалетна (obštestvena toaletna)
• Finnish: mukavuuslaitos (fi)
• French: commodités (fr) f pl
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• Italian: bagno pubblico
• Russian: удо́бства (ru) n pl (udóbstva)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} رَاحَة f (rāḥa) (leisure)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} oprtuno, ^{(please verify)} oportuneco
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} convenientia
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• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} bekvemmelighet (no)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} bekvämlighet (sv)

Verb

1. To make convenient

   These are equally viable times and I propose we alternate between the two times in order to convenience as many people as possible.

Further reading

• “convenience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “convenience”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.