convention

Meaning

1. A meeting or gathering.
2. A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
3. The convening of a formal meeting.
4. A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
5. A treaty or supplement to such.
6. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

Concepts

convention

custom

conference

tradition

congress

practice

meeting

assembly

agreement

gathering

usage

rule

rally

pattern

pact

covenant

con

session

mass meeting

treaty

conventionality

convening

conventionalism

habit

council

code

protocol

common practice

mores

wont

conferrence

formality

institution

formula

normal

contract

routine

discussion

reunion

congregation

general usage

rules

old customs

old etiquette

tournament

long-established custom

promise

resolution

vow

subcontract

ritual

code of conduct

course

method

procedure

process

set of rules

set pattern

manner

order

system

colloquium

interchange

parley

country’s usual practice

local custom

institutional

pow-wow

synod

way

condition

manners

third-term tradition

consent

cabinet

court

retinue

Congress

diet

customariness

rote

use

wontedness

compact

concordat

normal procedure

usual practice

accord

arrangement

bargain

deal

settlement

stipulation

understanding

get-together

usance

assemblage

coming together

concourse

congregating

get together

rallying

convent

forum

habituation

axiom

convocation

flock

association

business meeting

agree

precedent

general meeting

literary device

Pronounced as (IPA)

/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”).

Sentences

And now an Amanda Derek Convention !