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1 ADJ Someone who is conventional has behaviour or opinions that are ordinary and normal. □  …a respectable married woman with conventional opinions. ●  con|ven|tion|al|ly ADV [usu ADV with v] □  People still wore their hair short and dressed conventionally.

2 ADJ [usu ADJ n] A conventional method or product is one that is usually used or that has been in use for a long time. □  …the risks and drawbacks of conventional family planning methods. □  This new memory stick holds twice as much information as a conventional pen drive. ●  con|ven|tion|al|ly ADV [ADV with v] □  The farmer was fined for passing off conventionally-produced food as organic.

3 ADJ [usu ADJ n] Conventional weapons and wars do not involve nuclear explosives. □  We must reduce the danger of war by controlling nuclear, chemical and conventional arms.

4conventional wisdom → see wisdom SYNONYMS conventional ADJ 1

traditional:…traditional parents, who believed in laying down the law for their children.

conservative:People tend to be more conservative as they get older.

respectable:He came from a perfectly respectable middle-class family.

con|ven|tion|eer /kənve nʃən I ə ^r / (conventioneers ) N‑COUNT [usu pl] Conventioneers are people who are attending a convention. [AM ]

co n|vent school (convent schools ) N‑COUNT A convent school is a school where many of the teachers are nuns.

con|verge /kənvɜː ^r dʒ/ (converges , converging , converged )

1 VERB If people or vehicles converge on a place, they move towards it from different directions. □ [V + on ] Competitors from more than a hundred countries have converged on Sheffield for the Games.

2 VERB If roads or lines converge , they meet or join at a particular place. [FORMAL ] □ [V ] As they flow south, the five rivers converge.

3 VERB If different ideas or societies converge , they stop being different and become similar to each other. □ [V ] Film tastes on the two sides of the Atlantic seem to have converged. □ [V + with ] The views of householders converged and created a new consensus.

con|ver|gence /kənvɜː ^r dʒ ^ə ns/ (convergences ) N‑VAR The convergence of different ideas, groups, or societies is the process by which they stop being different and become more similar. [FORMAL ] □  …the need to move towards greater economic convergence.

con|ver|sant /kənvɜː ^r s ^ə nt/ ADJ [v-link ADJ ] If you are conversant with something, you are familiar with it and able to deal with it. [FORMAL ] □ [+ with ] Those in business are not, on the whole, conversant with basic scientific principles.

con|ver|sa|tion ◆◇◇ /kɒ nvə ^r se I ʃ ^ə n/ (conversations )

1 N‑COUNT If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation. □ [+ with ] He's a talkative guy, and I struck up a conversation with him. □  I waited for her to finish a telephone conversation.

2 PHRASE If you say that people are in conversation , you mean that they are talking together. □ [+ with ] When I arrived I found her in conversation with Mrs Williams.

3 PHRASE If you make conversation , you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to. □  He had been trying to make conversation.