clandestine meetings
Covert group rendezvous
Clandestine meetings are secret gatherings, typically to discuss or plan something that must be kept hidden—whether illicit, politically sensitive, or romantically forbidden.
The phrase emphasizes both the secrecy and the deliberate effort to avoid detection: The resistance held clandestine meetings in basement apartments.
Their clandestine meetings continued for months before anyone suspected the affair.
- secrecyPractice of hiding information
- back roomPrivate space behind scenes
- smoke-filled roomSecret political negotiation venue
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- hushAbsence of sound
assignation · shadow · dead drop · covert · silence · secret societies · cell structure · safehouses · safe passage · underground networks · rendezvous · hideouts · plotting · informants · surreptitious · cloak and dagger · coded · secret handshake
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- secret societiesFreemasons, Illuminati, secret society, secret societies, Masons
- courtshipcourting, courtship, suitor, betrothal, wooing
- secrecy in literaturemystery, secrets, spies, espionage, spy novels
- spy gearspy gadgets, decoder rings, invisible ink, microfilm, silencers
- seductionseduction, seductive, allure, beguilement, enticement
clandestine meetingspublic forums
Open spaces for discourse
open meetings · public assemblies · town halls · public hearings · press conferences
clandestine meetingsmass rallies
Large organized public gatherings
open houses · general assemblies · public gatherings · community meetings · community gatherings