convention | | |
n. (group) | 1. convention | a large formal assembly.; "political convention" |
| ~ group meeting, meeting | a formally arranged gathering.; "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson" |
| ~ constitutional convention | the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787. |
n. (cognition) | 2. convention, formula, normal, pattern, rule | 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" |
| ~ practice | knowledge of how something is usually done.; "it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner" |
| ~ mores | (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group. |
| ~ code of behavior, code of conduct | a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group. |
| ~ universal | a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings.; "some form of religion seems to be a human universal" |
n. (communication) | 3. convention | (diplomacy) an international agreement. |
| ~ pact, treaty, accord | a written agreement between two states or sovereigns. |
| ~ chemical weapons convention | a global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons. |
| ~ geneva convention | an agreement first drawn up in Geneva in 1864 and later revised concerning the treatment of captured and wounded military personnel and civilians in wartime. |
| ~ diplomacy, diplomatic negotiations | negotiation between nations. |
n. (attribute) | 4. convention, conventionalism, conventionality | orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional. |
| ~ orthodoxy | the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion). |
| ~ ossification, conformity | hardened conventionality. |
n. (act) | 5. convening, convention | the act of convening. |
| ~ gathering, assemblage, assembly | the social act of assembling.; "they demanded the right of assembly" |
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