Dictionary Entry
convention
convention is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
- 2intransitive verb
General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
- 3intransitive verb
A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
- 4intransitive verb
An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.
- 5intransitive verb
An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
- 6noun
the act of convening
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- 7noun
orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
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- 8noun
something regarded as a normative example
"the convention of not naming the main character"
"violence is the rule not the exception"
- 9noun
(diplomacy) an international agreement
- 10noun
a large formal assembly
"political convention"
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