plural conventions
plural conventions
Britannica Dictionary definition of CONVENTION
1 [count] : a large meeting of people who come to a place for usually several days to talk about their shared work or other interests or to make decisions as a groupWe go to the weeklong annual teachers' convention every summer.
He bought some new books at the science fiction convention.
a constitutional convention [=a meeting in which political leaders create a constitution]
The Democratic National Convention will meet next week to announce their party's candidate for president.
The conference was held at the new convention center. [=a building or set of buildings designed to hold many people and meetings]
[count]
It's important to follow the conventions of punctuation in a paper for school.
They say school is just as important for teaching children social codes and conventions as for teaching math.
Many sports shows have recently adopted the conventions of the talk show.
[noncount]
a poet who rebels against literary convention
The award that by convention should have gone to the student with the highest grade went instead to the teacher's favorite.
a director who has always defied convention [=done unexpected or unusual things] in his movies
As a matter of convention, the oldest members speak first.
artistic conventions
The director's use of the usual romantic conventions made the film boring and predictable.
His latest novel uses the conventions of early 19th-century literature.
an international convention banning the spread of nuclear weapons
the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
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