convention
A meeting or gathering.
Noun 4 meanings
A meeting or gathering.
“The convention was held in Geneva.”
A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
“The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.”
The convening of a formal meeting.
A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
Etymology
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.
CONVENTION at a glance
CONVENTION has 10 letters and scores 15 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + N 1 + V 4 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 20 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,922 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with convention
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- CONTENTION12
- CONVECTION17
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