One entry found for convention.

Main Entry: con·ven·tion
Pronunciation: kn-ven-chn
Function: noun
1 : AGREEMENT 2a, covenant <an international convention banning the spread of nuclear weapons>
2 : a meeting of persons for a common purpose <a constitutional convention> <teachers' convention>
3 : a custom or a way of acting or doing things that is widely accepted and followed <the conventions of punctuation>

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