Convention Social Kənˈvenʃn Woman Young Enjoys Flouting Countries

• social conventions
• by convention the deputy leader was always a woman.
• she is a young woman who enjoys flouting conventions.
• convention demands that a club member should resign in such a situation.

convention

1. the way in which something is done that most people in a society expect and consider to be polite or the right way to do it
• social conventions
• By convention the deputy leader was always a woman.
• She is a young woman who enjoys flouting conventions.
• Convention demands that a club member should resign in such a situation.
2. a large meeting of the members of a profession, a political party, etc.
• synonym conference
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• to hold a convention
• the Democratic Party Convention (= to elect a candidate for president)
3. an official agreement between countries or leaders
• the Geneva convention
• the United Nations convention on the rights of the child
4. a traditional method or style in literature, art or the theatre
• the conventions of Greek tragedy

Extra Examples

• By convention, planets are named after Roman gods.
• By convention, the Queen gives the Royal Assent to all measures passed by Parliament.
• Convention dictated that dangerous physical action is the part of heroes, not heroines.
• Dallas is one of the top convention cities in the United States.
• He addressed the annual Republican convention.
• He challenged the conventions of painting.
• He had the freedom of spirit to cut through convention.
• Her work refuses any concession to polite conventions of ‘good taste’.
• In a surprising break with convention, she wore a red wedding dress.
• It’s an established convention that the part is played by a woman.
• It’s an established convention that the part of the prince is played by a woman.
• Life with the Leighs was not hidebound by rules or convention.
• Most countries have adhered to the convention.
• No young politician can afford to flout convention in this way.
• Over 60 countries have yet to ratify the climate convention.
• She knew that she had broken an important social convention.
• She was at the Democratic convention.
• The convention established procedures for the transport of toxic waste.
• The novel refuses to conform to the narrative conventions of 19th century realism.
• They followed the Greek convention of pinning gifts of money to the bride’s dress.
• This is forbidden under the Convention on Human Rights.
• This practice breaches the arms convention.
• a convention governing the conditions under which mining is permitted
• journalists reporting from the convention floor
• the 1869 convention between Turkey and Persia
• the 1951 United Nations Convention on refugees
• the Berne Convention for the Conservation of European Wildlife
• the UN convention against torture
• the rigid social conventions of Victorian Britain
• Here we decided to break with convention.
• She is a lively young woman who enjoys flouting convention.
• The handshake is a social convention.
• The novel conforms to the conventions of nineteenth-century realism.
• The party’s annual convention will be held on April 6.
• They showed a refreshing disrespect for convention.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in sense (2)): via Old French from Latin conventio(n-) ‘meeting, covenant’, from the verb convenire ‘assemble, agree, fit’, from con- ‘together’ + venire ‘come’. Sense (1) dates from the late 18th cent.