convention
nounUK /kənˈvɛn.ʃən/
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.
1
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 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 the original on 11 Apr 2021:
2
A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.
3
The convening of a formal meeting.
4
A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
5
A treaty or supplement to such.
International law
- The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations.
6
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.
2 more examples
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re- placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below: (40) VP → V AP (PP) (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be optional.)1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 127:
- Suppose that Smith’s itch is that little bit worse than Jones’s. Won’t he scratch with a little bit more vigour? 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:
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31 terms
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- convene, convener, convenient, convent, conventicle, coven, covin