Convention
[kən'venʃ(ə)n] or [kən'vɛnʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of convening.
(noun.) something regarded as a normative example; 'the convention of not naming the main character'; 'violence is the rule not the exception'; 'his formula for impressing visitors'.
(noun.) (diplomacy) an international agreement.
(noun.) a large formal assembly; 'political convention'.
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Definition
(v. i.) The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
(v. i.) General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
(v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
(v. i.) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.
(v. i.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Assembly, meeting, CONVOCATION.[2]. Contract, compact, agreement, stipulation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Assemblage, meeting, gathering, conference, cabinet, convocation, congress,session, synod, treaty, compact
ANT:Recess, non-convention, dissolution, prorogation, promise, understanding, word,parole
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Definition
n. an assembly esp. of representatives or delegates for some common object: any extraordinary assembly called upon any special occasion: any temporary treaty: an agreement: established usage: fashion.—adj. Conven′tional formed by convention: growing out of tacit agreement or custom: customary: not spontaneous.—v.t. Conven′tionalise.—ns. Conventionalism that which is established by tacit agreement as a mode of speech &c.; Conven′tionalist one who adheres to a convention or is swayed by conventionalism; Conventional′ity state of being conventional: that which is established by use or custom.—adv. Conven′tionally.—adj. Conven′tionary acting under contract.—ns. Conven′tioner Conven′tionist.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a convention, denotes unusual activity in business affairs and final engagement in love. An inharmonious or displeasing convention brings you disappointment.
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Examples
- The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This convention is not of the nature of a promise: For even promises themselves, as we shall see afterwards, arise from human conventions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The National Whig Convention, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, met at Baltimore on May 1, 1844. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I filled in a paragraph about the convention and how the vote had gone, as I was sure it would. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He induced the Convention to decree that France believed in a Supreme Being, and in that comforting doctrine, the immortality of the soul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There had been some kind of convention in Virginia, in which John Minor Botts was the leading figure. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For a month he kept away from the Convention. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The convention which had met and made its nomination of the Democratic candidate for the presidency had declared the war a failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The National Convention met on September 21st, 1792, and immediately proclaimed a republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her convention was not their convention, their standards were not her standards. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- One time there was to be a convention of the managers of Edison illuminating companies at Chicago. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As I write, a convention of the Populist Party has just taken place. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But next day I learned that instead of there being a vote the convention had adjourned without action until the day after. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The miseries it entails are genuine miseries--not points of etiquette or infringements of convention. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is only within the last few years that the human test has ceased to be the property of a small group and become the convention of a large majority. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In most of us, irked by its conventions and complexities, there stirs the nomad strain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This convention is not of the nature of a promise: For even promises themselves, as we shall see afterwards, arise from human conventions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- No cause can succeed without them: so long as you rely on the efficacy of scientific demonstration and logical proof you can hold your conventions in anybody's back parlor and have room to spare. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Edison phonograph industry thus organized is helped by frequent conventions of this large commercial force. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If nature has given us no such sentiment, there is not, naturally, nor antecedent to human conventions, any such thing as property. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- In like manner are languages gradually established by human conventions without any promise. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was the right conventional attitude, and, as far as the world went, he believed in the conventions. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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