<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a meeting for consultation or discussion</li><li>a conference between a student and his adviser</li><li>colloquium</li><li>parley</li><li>the act of conferring or consulting together</li><li>consultation, especially on an important or serious matter</li><li>Government: a meeting of various committees to settle disagreements between the two branches of the legislature</li><li>an association of athletic teams; league: an intercollegiate conference</li><li>Ecclesiastical: an official assembly of clergy or of clergy and laity, customary in many Christian denominations</li><li>a group of churches whose representatives regularly meet in such an assembly</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>conferred</li><li>conferencing</li><li>to hold or participate in a conference or series of conferences</li></ul>