convention
a meeting or accepted custom
Roots
- com-: with, together, complete, or intensified
- ven / vent: come or arrive
Other words with the ven / vent root
- advent: arrival or beginning
- circumvent: to get around or bypass
- contravene: to violate or go against a rule or principle
- convene: to come together for a meeting
- conventional: following accepted custom or usual practice
- event: something that happens
- intervene: to come between
Convention keeps the coming-together idea: people gather, then habits gather too.
The convention was useful but the quieter hallway talks mattered more.