convention

Meaning

Noun

• A meeting or gathering.
• A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
• The convening of a formal meeting.
• A formal agreement, contract or pact.
• A treaty or supplement to such.
• A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

Origin

• Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventiō ("meeting, assembling; agreement, convention"), from conveniō, from con- + veniō.