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conventionist

conventionist noun: one who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.

Noun

conventionist (plural conventionists)

  1. One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
    • It must needs be a hostile kind of a world, when the buyer (if it be but of a sorry post-chaise) cannot go forth with the seller thereof into the street to terminate the difference betwixt them, but he instantly falls into the same frame of mind and views his conventionist with the same sort of...1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, page 40
  2. One who supports a convention or assembly.

Forms of conventionist

pluralconventionists

Origin of conventionist

From convention + -ist.

Questions about conventionist

What does conventionist mean?
Conventionist means one who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
What part of speech is conventionist?
Conventionist is a noun.
What is the plural of conventionist?
The plural of conventionist is conventionists.

Words near conventionist in the dictionary

  1. conventioner
  2. conventioners
  3. conventiongoer
  4. conventiongoers
  5. conventionism
  6. conventionist
  7. conventionists
  8. conventionnel
  9. conventionnels
  10. conventions
  11. Conventionsthaler

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