radunare

Radunare is a Romanian noun meaning a gathering or assembly of people. It denotes a meeting organized for deliberation, decision, or social purposes, and can refer to both the event itself and the body of people who have gathered. The term is used in formal, historical, or rural contexts and is often found in older texts or in compound expressions describing collective gatherings.

In contemporary Romanian, adunare is more common in everyday speech, while radunare tends to appear in historical descriptions, specialist discourse, or in fixed phrases such as radunarea sătenilor (village assembly) or radunarea generală in legal or organizational contexts. The word can convey a sense of collective action or communal decision-making and is sometimes contrasted with întâlnire or adunare to emphasize deliberation or formal structure.

Radunare can also appear in phrases that indicate the level or purpose of the gathering, for example a local radunare, a comunitară radunare, or a district-level radunare. In modern use, many organizations prefer adunare for general meetings, while radunare persists in historical writing and in descriptions of traditional or ceremonial assemblies.

See also: Adunare, Întâlnire, Adunare generală, Înalte sau comunitare adunări depending on context.