All 4 Uses of
convention
in
The Idiot
- She blamed her own stupid unconventional "eccentricity."†
Chpt 3.1 *unconventional = not regarded as normalstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconventional means not and reverses the meaning of conventional. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- It strikes me you take Aglaya Ivanovna for some conventional boarding-school girl.†
Chpt 4.8conventional = normal or typical
- Oh, no, he did not think of Aglaya as a boarding-school miss, or a young lady of the conventional type!†
Chpt 4.8
- In short, their attitude was not that which one would have expected in men who professed to despise all trivialities, all foolish mundane conventions, and indeed everything, except their own personal interests.†
Chpt 2.7 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting
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(2)
(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(3)
(convention as in: The Geneva Convention) a written international agreement
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)