Meaning

A meeting or gathering..

Definitions by Sense

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. (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
6. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

Example Sentences

The convention was held in Geneva.

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.

The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.

The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations.

Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention, not binding formal protocol.

The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.

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.)

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Use convention when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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