Moot

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Synonyms: meet-up, gathering
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A fannish gathering, often recurring over time

The word comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for meeting

JRR Tolkien used the term in The Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers), when the Ent Treebeard, hearing news of Saruman from the Hobbits Merry and Pippin, calls a gathering of all the Ents.