Convention may refer to:
- Treaty, an agreement in international law
- Convention (meeting), a large gathering of people who share a common interest
- Political convention, a formal gathering of people for political purposes
- Fan convention, a gathering of fans of a particular media property or genre
- Convention (norm), a custom or tradition, a standard of presentation or conduct
- Bridge convention, a term in the game of bridge
- "The Convention" (The Office episode)
- "Convention" (Malcolm in the Middle episode)
Famous quotes containing the word convention:
“By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by
convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.”
—Democritus (c. 460–400 B.C.)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
“No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius—a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)