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convention   (TTS Sound)

The noun convention has 5 senses

• convention -- (a large formal assembly; "political convention")


• convention, normal, pattern, rule, formula -- (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")


• convention -- ((diplomacy) an international agreement)


• conventionality, convention, conventionalism -- (orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional)


• convention, convening -- (the act of convening)