A convention is a meeting, usually of a particular group. Political parties, teachers, plumbers, gardeners, toymakers and computer designers all hold conventions.
The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
Noun
the act of convening
Noun
orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
Noun
something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
Noun
(diplomacy) an international agreement
Noun
a large formal assembly; "political convention"
v. i.
The act of coming together; the state of being
together; union; coalition.
v. i.
General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom;
usage; conventionality.
v. i.
A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of
delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, --
civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
v. i.
An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or
estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly
which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the
throne to be abdicated by James II.
v. i.
An agreement or contract less formal than, or
preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of
armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states;
also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a
postal convention between two governments.
Convention
The conventions or associations of several particles of matter into bodies of any certain denomination.2.
There are thousands now Such women, but convention beats them down.3.
He set himself to the making of good laws in a grand convention of his nobles.
A convention of delegates from all the States, to meet in Philadelphia, for the sole and express purpose of reserving the federal system, and correcting its defects.4.
Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.5.
This convention, I think from my soul, is nothing but a stipulation for national ignominy; a truce without a suspension of hostilities.
The convention with the State of georgia has been ratified by their Legislature.
The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
Usage Examples
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.
Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.
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Other Usage ExamplesWords without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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