Usually means: Agreed-upon norms guiding behavior, practices.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. convention: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. convention: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. convention: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. convention: Collins English Dictionary
  5. convention: Vocabulary.com
  6. Convention, convention: Wordnik
  7. convention: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. convention: Wiktionary
  9. convention: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. convention: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. convention: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Convention: Dictionary.com
  13. convention: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. convention: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Convention (Paris Metro), Convention (disambiguation), Convention (meeting), Convention (norm), Convention, The Convention (The Office): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Convention: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. convention: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. convention: Rhymezone
  19. convention, convention (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. convention: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. convention: Free Dictionary
  22. convention: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. convention: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. convention: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. convention: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. convention: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. CONVENTION: Accounting Glossary
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Convention (norm), convention: Legal dictionary
  8. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  9. Convention: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Convention: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Convention (norm), The Convention, convention: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convention: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. convention: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Convention: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A meeting or gathering.
▸ noun:  A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
▸ noun:  The convening of a formal meeting.
▸ noun:  A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
▸ noun:  (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
▸ noun:  A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

Similar:
convening, rule, conventionalism, pattern, normal, conventionality, formula, preconvention, conference, conventioneer, more...

Opposite:
innovation, nonconformity, originality, unorthodoxy, novelty

Types:
comic convention, gaming convention, trade convention, academic convention, more...

Phrases:
the convention, national convention, Constitutional convention, Geneva Convention, democratic convention, more...

Adjectives:
national, constitutional, democratic, annual, first, republican, present, social, international, general, second

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Similar:
convening, rule, conventionalism, pattern, normal, conventionality, formula, preconvention, conference, conventioneer, more...

Opposite:
innovation, nonconformity, originality, unorthodoxy, novelty

Types:
comic convention, gaming convention, trade convention, academic convention, more...

Phrases:
the convention, national convention, Constitutional convention, Geneva Convention, democratic convention, vienna convention, convention center, hague convention, Berne Convention, paris convention, more...

Adjectives:
national, constitutional, democratic, annual, first, republican, present, social, international, general, second

Colors:
    burgundy,     charcoal,     beige,     olive,     maroon,     taupe,     teal,     forest green,     midnight blue,     rust



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