Convention
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Convention centers on agreement and gathering.
A convention is a large meeting where people with shared interests assemble: a teachers' convention, the Republican National Convention.
Convention also means an accepted practice or custom—the unwritten rules of behavior or art: social conventions, the conventions of the genre.
To defy convention is to act against established norms.
In law, a convention is a formal agreement between nations, less binding than a treaty: the Geneva Convention.
The adjective conventional describes what follows standard practice rather than innovation.
Habitual group practice
- normAccepted behavioral standard
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
ritual · formality · propriety · observance · decorum · manner · unwritten rule · social code
Binding pact between nations
- pactFormal agreement between parties
- accordHarmony between parties
- protocolPrescribed conduct rules
- charterFounding organizational document
covenant · declaration · Geneva · Hague · international · signatory · ratification · multilateral
Organized meeting for discussion
- summitPeak or diplomatic gathering
- assemblyConstructing from components
- expoLarge public display event
- delegateEntrust authority to another
attendee · keynote · registration · badge · booth · panel · symposium · annual
custom
Habitual group practice
- normAccepted behavioral standard
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
protocol · ritual · formality · propriety · observance · decorum · manner · unwritten rule · social code · standard
treaty
Binding pact between nations
charter · covenant · declaration · Geneva · Hague · international · signatory · ratification · multilateral · diplomatic
conference
Organized meeting for discussion
- summitPeak or diplomatic gathering
- assemblyConstructing from components
- expoLarge public display event
delegate · attendee · keynote · registration · badge · booth · panel · symposium · annual · trade show
nomination
Formal candidate selection
candidate · platform · floor vote · roll call · keynote · ballot · nominee · party · brokered · national
trope
Recurring narrative device
genre · motif · narrative · stylistic · literary · cinematic · theatrical · breaking · subverting · storytelling
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
- Texas historyAlamo, Texas Revolution, Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, Texas Capitol
- Revolutionary WarsFrench Republic, revolutionary army, coalition forces, Napoleon Bonaparte, British forces
- Historic DocumentsDeclaration of Independence, Magna Carta, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Mayflower Compact
Conventionunconventionality
Departure from accepted standards
nonconformity · rebellion · eccentricity · originality · heterodoxy
Conventionchance encounter
Unintended crossing of paths
happenstance · flash mob · dispersal · solitude · isolation
Conventioninnovation
Creating something original
originality · experimentation · avant-garde · unconventionality · novelty
- convention centreFacility hosting large gatherings
- national conventionsGatherings to nominate candidates
- conventional wisdomGenerally accepted beliefs
- convention centerFacility for large gatherings
- spelling conventionsRules for writing words correctly
- convention floor
conventions, conventional, conventionally, unconventional, unconventionally, conventionality, conventioneer