HOW TO PRONOUNCE
convention
/kənˈvɛnʃən/
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What does convention mean?
noun
- A meeting or gathering.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- The convening of a formal meeting.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
- A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
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IPA pronunciation
/kənˈvɛnʃən/
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A supply of the omission is one of the lesser instances in which the convention have improved on the model before them.
It was only an average little conscience, a thing which represented the world, her past environment, habit, convention, in a confused way.
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Mankind—and, above all, islanders—come very swiftly to a bearing, and find very readily, upon one convention or another, a tolerable corporate life.
For, in the words of that member of the Convention who did not like the guillotine, to kill is not to reply.
It was specified that two-thirds of the members of the new Assembly should be chosen from among the deputies of the Convention.