Convention Meaning
/kənˈvɛn.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA meeting or gathering.
nounA formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
Sentence Examples
There was a convention last month.
Progress in science was often barred by convention.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Thousands of fans flock to the annual comic book ____ downtown each August.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
There was a ____ last month.
Word Origin & History
Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventiō (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveniō (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”). Equivalent to convene + -tion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2012 May 30, Katherine Stewart, “How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021:
"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.)"
— 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 127:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Thousands of fans flock to the annual comic book ____ downtown each August.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
There was a ____ last month.