What's the appropriate general word for all informal events in which a few (let's say, 3-10) friends meet at home or in a pub for a beer, dinner, coffee, card game etc., and have a conversation? I don't mean formal large reunions, but these everyday gatherings, and I need a single noun that fit all different kinds of meetings, that would fit in a text whose register is formal, even academic. Would "friends' gatherings" work? (or is it "friends gatherings" without an apostrophe? or maybe "friend gatherings")?
Also, would "family gatherings" work to describe regular meetings with one's core or extended family over a dinner or over a coffee?
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I saw a reference to a "tertulia"-- a Spanish word--in a book by Gabriel Garcia Marques. It refers to a group that gets together to talk while eating and drinking--or at least that is my understanding. My monthly group has adopted it-- we prefer it as it has a more special quality than some alternatives.*