convention
UK/kənˈvɛn.ʃən/
convention noun: a meeting or gathering.
Noun
convention (countable and uncountable, plural conventions)
- A meeting or gathering.
- The convention was held in Geneva.
- The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in...2012 May 30, Katherine Stewart, “How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.
- The convening of a formal meeting.
- A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
- A treaty or supplement to such.
- The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
- Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention, not binding formal protocol.
- The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.
convention meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
convention in Hindi
- generally accepted principle, method or behaviour
- रूढ़ि rūṛhi
convention in Tamil
- அவை, பேரவை, கருத்தரங்கு, மாநாடு, பட்டாங்கு, ஒப்பந்தம்
convention in Urdu
- treaty
- مُعاہَدَہ mu'āhada, پَیمان paimān, عَہْد نامَہ 'ahd nāma
convention in Bengali
- সম্মেলন, প্রচল, দেশাচার, রীতিনীতি, ধর্মসভা, প্রচলন
More languagesFewer languages
- convention in Telugu
- కన్వెన్షన్
- convention in Malayalam
- ഉടമ്പടി, ചർച്ചായോഗം, സമ്മേളനം, പ്രതിനിധിയോഗം
- convention in Kannada
- ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯ, ರೂಢಿ, ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ನಡವಳಿಕೆ, ಇರುಸರಿಕೆ
- convention in Sanskrit
- संकेत saṃketa, समय samayá
- convention in Nepali
- महासन्धि
- convention in Tagalog
- pagpupulong
- convention in Arabic
- مُؤْتَمَر muʔtamar, مُعَاهَدَة muʕāhada, تَوَافُق tawāfuq, مُقَاوَلَة muqāwala
- convention in Malay
- konvensyen
- convention in Thai
- อนุสัญญา à-nú-sǎn-yaa
Examples of convention in a sentence
- Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.2012 May 30, Katherine Stewart, “How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren”, in The Guardian, archived from...
- Or perhaps the social conventions in place prevent that difference from showing up — not all societies permit scratching where it itches.1997, David Braddon-Mitchell, Frank Jackson, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 31:
Forms of convention
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Origin of convention
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.
Words formed from convention
- brokered convention
- concom
- congoing
- conreport
- conventional
- conventionalize
- conventionary
- convention bump
- convention centre
- convention center
- conventioneer
- conventioneering
- conventioner
- convention-goer
- conventiongoer
- conventionism
- conventionist
- convention state
- counterconvention
- day count convention
- miniconvention
- naming convention
- national convention
- nonconvention
- open convention
- postconvention
- preconvention
- proconvention
- reconvention
- stfcon
- teleconvention
Phrases with convention
Questions about convention
- What does convention mean?
- Convention means a meeting or gathering.
- What is convention in Hindi?
- Convention in Hindi is रूढ़ि (rūṛhi). See Convention meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use convention in a sentence?
- Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.
- What part of speech is convention?
- Convention is a noun.
- How do you pronounce convention?
- Convention is pronounced /kənˈvɛn.ʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of convention?
- The plural of convention is conventions.
Words near convention in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: convention (page history and authors); convention (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); convention (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); convention (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); convention (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); convention (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); संकेत (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); convention (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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