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Convention

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A meeting or gathering. countable, uncountable

    "The convention was held in Geneva."

  2. 2
    the act of convening wordnet
  3. 3
    A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates. countable, uncountable

    "The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution."

  4. 4
    orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional wordnet
  5. 5
    The convening of a formal meeting. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    something regarded as a normative example wordnet
  2. 7
    A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    (diplomacy) an international agreement wordnet
  4. 9
    A treaty or supplement to such. countable, uncountable

    "The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations."

  5. 10
    a large formal assembly wordnet
  6. 11
    A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom. countable, uncountable

    "Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention, not binding formal protocol."

Etymology

Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventiō (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveniō (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”). Equivalent to convene + -tion.

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