Convenience Meaning
/kənˈviːnɪəns/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe quality of being convenient.
nounAny object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
Sentence Examples
You pay for the convenience of living near a station.
May we ask you to remit the settlement in full at your earliest convenience?
We have provided seats for the convenience of our customers.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
For customer ____, the store installed a twenty-four-hour drive-through window.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You pay for the ____ of living near a station.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin convenientia, from conveniens (“suitable”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”). Doublet of convenance.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape."
— c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
"Thus first Necessity invented stools, / Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs[…]"
— 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
"A pair of spectacles[…] and several other little conveniences."
— 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
"...let Fanchette come in a hackney-coach in the morning, and I will direct the housekeeper to send you something of every thing—plate, candlesticks, lamps, damask—and you won't take it amiss if we should happen to have game or poultry come up that I put that amongst the conveniences;..."
— 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 223:
"There was a bookshelf with a number of tattered volumes, and a few conveniences in the way of cupboards, which appeared to have been contrived out of a packing case by a hasty man, with a blunt axe."
— 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 7:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
For customer ____, the store installed a twenty-four-hour drive-through window.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
You pay for the ____ of living near a station.