Skip to main content

convenance

/kon-vuh-nahns; French kawnvuh-nahns/US // ˈkɒn vəˌnɑns; French kɔ̃vəˈnɑ̃s //UK // French (kɔ̃vnɑ̃s) //

召集,召集人,召唤,召开

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural con·ve·nanc·es [kon-vuh-nahn-siz; French kawnvuh-nahns]. /ˈkɒn vəˌnɑn sɪz; French kɔ̃vəˈnɑ̃s/.

    • : suitability; expediency; propriety.
    • : convenances, the social proprieties or conventionalities.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indecorum
as inform

Examples

  • Nevertheless, since she married—as girls in France do—not to please herself, but her parents, she made a mariage de convenance.

  • He was thinking of this marriage de convenance he must make, of this bride he must one day take home to England.

  • Of course I shall have to marry one day or other, but I'm afraid it will be what the French call a mariage de convenance.

  • This mariage de convenance brought no happiness to the parties concerned, and ended in completely crushing the unloved wife.

  • It was a mariage de convenance—there'd been no wooing, no winning.