Dictionary

convention en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kənˈvɛn.ʃən/ (UK)
• /ˌkɒnˈvɛn.ʃən/ (UK)
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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.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A meeting or gathering.
   • 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:
   • The convention was held in Geneva.
2. (countable, uncountable) A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
   • The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.
3. (countable, uncountable) The convening of a formal meeting.
4. (countable, uncountable) A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
5. (countable, qualifier:international law, uncountable) A treaty or supplement to such.
   • The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations.
6. (countable, uncountable) A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
   • The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.
   • Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention, not binding formal protocol.
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

conventionist · brokered convention · congoing · conventioner · stfcon · convention-goer · conventionalize · teleconvention · reconvention · miniconvention · conventional · convention centre · open convention · conventioneering · preconvention · postconvention · convention bump · counterconvention · naming convention · conventioneer · conventionism · conreport · convention state · concom · proconvention · conventiongoer · day count convention · nonconvention · national convention · conventionary · convention center

Relateds

conventicle · covin · convene · convenient · convent · coven · convener

Translations (172)

ar مُقَاوَلَة (treaty) · ru соглаше́ние (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · pl konwent (meeting or a gathering) · da konference (meeting or a gathering) · sv sedvana (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · ar مُؤْتَمَر (meeting or a gathering) · fr convention (agreement, contract or pact) · fi käytäntö (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · pt convenção (treaty) · ca convenció (meeting or a gathering) · nl conventie (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · pt convenção (meeting or a gathering) · ms konvensyen (meeting or a gathering) · sv konvent (meeting or a gathering) · pt convenção (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · sq kuvend (meeting or a gathering) · be канвэ́нцыя (treaty) · fa-ira پِیْمان (agreement, contract or pact) · be канве́нцыя (treaty) · fa-ira تَوافُق (agreement, contract or pact) · pt convenção (agreement, contract or pact) · he אֲמָנָה (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · fa-ira اِجْلاس (meeting or a gathering) · de Brauch (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · ceb kombensyon (agreement, contract or pact) · sv avtal (treaty) · uk конве́нція (treaty) · ko 조약 (treaty) · km អនុសញ្ញា (treaty) · ro tratat (treaty) · nl conventie (treaty) · fi konventio (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · grc σύλλογος (meeting or a gathering) · nb konvensjon (treaty) · sv konvention (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · sv konvention (treaty) · fa-ira مَجْمَع (meeting or a gathering) · ru конве́нция (agreement, contract or pact) · cmn 習俗 /习俗 (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · nl conventie (formal deliberative assembly) · de Konvention (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · nn konvensjon (agreement, contract or pact) · de Versammlung (meeting or a gathering) · sv konferens (meeting or a gathering) · cmn 慣例 /惯例 (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · es convención (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · tr kurultay (meeting or a gathering) · th อนุสัญญา (treaty) · hi रूढ़ि (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · da møde (meeting or a gathering) · ro convenție (agreement, contract or pact) · cs konvence (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · es convención (treaty) · tr toplantı (meeting or a gathering) · de Kongress (meeting or a gathering) · ja 条約 (treaty) · fa-ira جَلَسِه (meeting or a gathering) · cs úmluva (treaty) · gl convención (meeting or a gathering) · ru собра́ние (meeting or a gathering) · bg споразуме́ние (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · de Vereinbarung (agreement, contract or pact) · nn stemne (meeting or a gathering) · nl overeenkomst (agreement, contract or pact) · ar عُرْف (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · ja 慣習 (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · el σύμβαση (agreement, contract or pact) · fa-ira قَرارْداد (agreement, contract or pact) · nb stevne (meeting or a gathering) · fi edustajakokous (formal deliberative assembly) · ru съезд (meeting or a gathering) · pt tratado (treaty) · pdt Vesaumlunk (meeting or a gathering) · sv möte (meeting or a gathering) · txb sārri (meeting or a gathering) · ko 협약 (agreement, contract or pact) · ur عَہْد نامَہ (treaty) · hu konvenció (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · cmn 慣習 /惯习 (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · fa-ira عُرْف (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · es convención (meeting or a gathering) · cmn 會議 /会议 (meeting or a gathering) · de Konvention (treaty) · ceb kombensyon (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · tr kongre (meeting or a gathering) · fr convention (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · fi kokoontuminen (meeting or a gathering) · nl bijeenkomst (meeting or a gathering) · az qurultay (meeting or a gathering) · cmn 協議 /协议 (agreement, contract or pact) · tr âdet (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · pl konwencja (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · ja 協約 (agreement, contract or pact) · sv konvention (agreement, contract or pact) · da konvent (meeting or a gathering) · ru конве́нция (treaty) · fi kokous (meeting or a gathering) · ceb kombensyon (treaty) · he שיטה רשמית (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · bg конве́нция (treaty) · sv fördrag (treaty) · pl konwencja (agreement, contract or pact) · ko 대회 (meeting or a gathering) · ar مُعَاهَدَة (treaty) · nn konvensjon (treaty) · cmn 公約 /公约 (treaty) · ru конве́нция (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · cs sjezd (meeting or a gathering) · be канвэ́нцыя (agreement, contract or pact) · eo konvencio (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · ro convenție (treaty) · nl vaste praktijk (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · fr convention (meeting or a gathering) · nb konvensjon (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · fa-ira پِیْمان (treaty) · pl zjazd (meeting or a gathering) · cs konvence (treaty) · bg конве́нция (agreement, contract or pact) · de Abkommen (agreement, contract or pact) · ro întrunire (meeting or a gathering) · bg събра́ние (meeting or a gathering) · cmn 條約 /条约 (treaty) · ur پَیمان (treaty) · uk конве́нція (agreement, contract or pact) · ja 大会 (meeting or a gathering) · cmn 大會 /大会 (meeting or a gathering) · fa-ira مُقاوَلِه (treaty) · nn konvensjon (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · ru конгре́сс (meeting or a gathering) · sv fördrag (agreement, contract or pact) · lo ອະນຸສັນຍາ (treaty) · sv avtal (agreement, contract or pact) · grc συνθήκη (agreement, contract or pact) · fa-ira مُعاهَدِه (treaty) · tl pagpupulong (meeting or a gathering) · nl conventie (agreement, contract or pact) · he מוסכמה (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · de Abkommen (treaty) · be канве́нцыя (agreement, contract or pact) · nv ntsaago áłah aleeh (meeting or a gathering) · ceb kombensyon (formal deliberative assembly) · ceb kombensyon (meeting or a gathering) · es convenio (agreement, contract or pact) · ru догово́р (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · fi sopimus (treaty) · ru усло́вность (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · ro convenție (meeting or a gathering) · de Tagung (meeting or a gathering) · es tratado (treaty) · tr antlaşma (agreement, contract or pact) · he כֶּנֶס (meeting or a gathering) · eo kongreso (meeting or a gathering) · gd còmhdhail (meeting or a gathering) · tr antlaşma (treaty) · ur مُعاہَدَہ (treaty) · ar مُعَاهَدَة (agreement, contract or pact) · bg конве́нция (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · ja 慣例 (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · es costumbre (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · eo konvencio (formal deliberative assembly) · ru конве́нт (meeting or a gathering) · ro convenție (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · tr gelenek (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · it convenzione (meeting or a gathering) · bg конгре́с (meeting or a gathering) · ko 관례 (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · el σύμβαση (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · de Sitte (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour) · ar تَوَافُق (agreement, contract or pact) · nb konvensjon (agreement, contract or pact) · fi sopimus (agreement, contract or pact) · ko 관습 (generally accepted principle, method or behaviour)