n. The act of coming together; coalition; union.n. A gathering of persons; a meeting; an assembly.n. Specifically A formal, recognized, or statutory meeting or assembly of men for civil or religious purposes; particularly, an assembly of delegates or representatives for consultation on important concerns, civil, political, or religious.n. An agreement or contract between two parties; specifically, in diplomacyn. General agreement; tacit understanding; common consent, as the foundation of a custom, an institution, or the like.n. A customary rule, regulation, or requirement, or such rules collectively; something more or less arbitrarily established, or required by common consent or opinion; a conventionality; a precedent.n. In civil law: In general, the agreement of several persons, who by a common act of the will determine their legal relations, for the purpose either of creating an obligation or of extinguishing one. in a narrower sense, the agreement of several persons in one and the same act of will resulting in an obligation between them.—n. In the fine arts, a generalization of nature which expresses certain phases of the actual and suppresses others, according to custom or tradition.n. In card-playing, a play adopted for convenience: as, in bridge, leading a heart when the pone doubles a no-trumper, or scoring spades without playing when the make is not doubled and the score is not 20 or better.