Dictionary definition for: Convention
1. (n) a large formal assembly; "political convention"
2. (n) something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character" "violence is the rule not the exception" "his formula for impressing visitors"
3. (n) (diplomacy) an international agreement
4. (n) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
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