convention
IPA: kʌnvˈɛnʃʌn
noun
- A meeting or gathering.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- The convening of a formal meeting.
- A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
- (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
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Examples of "convention" in Sentences
- The scope of the convention is limited.
- The rest of the aircraft was conventional.
- Their family tradition is rather conventional.
- In the end the convention was ratified at Frankfurt.
- But the bottomline is the unwritten laws and conventions.
- The convention delegates elected him as the President of the Convention.
- In fact, some uncommonly good scholars prefer the traditional convention.
- Example of such a preemptive conventional opening is the Muiderberg convention.
- Your first campaign stop after the convention is the capital of the Confederacy.
- The lack of imaginative power to break away from convention, _their convention_, is a serious defect in their character.
- People like the president and Republicans need to go to the NAME convention to learn as much as they can and then take the knowledge back to Washington.
- So this convention is a way to praise what AA characters and creators are out there, and hopefully lead to more inclusion of AAs in all aspects of the industry.
- Guests of honor include Haikasoru pal Jeff Vandermeer, who so recently interviewed us on the Omnivoracious blog, and the theme of the convention is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe.
- Langres, that "most secret convention [_convention sécrétissime_] which directed everything after May 31, an occult and terrible power of which the other Convention became the slave and which was composed of the prime initiates of Illuminism.
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- Cratylus (for I shall assume that your silence gives consent), then custom and convention must be supposed to contribute to the indication of our thoughts; for suppose we take the instance of number, how can you ever imagine, my good friend, that you will find names resembling every individual number, unless you allow that which you term convention and agreement to have authority in determining the correctness of names?