convention
Meaning of convention
- A meeting or gathering.
The convention was held in Geneva.
- 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 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.
Information about convention
- It is a name.
- The plural form of convention is: conventions.
- Languages in which convention is used:
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Hyphenation of convention
con-ven-tion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- convention is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
convention synonyms
Meaning normal:
normal, pattern, rule, formula
Meaning conventionality:
conventionality, conventionalism
Meaning convening:
Translation of convention
- German: Konvention, Abkommen
- Spanish: convenio, convención
- French: convention
- Italian: convenzione
- Portuguese: convenções
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