word-vault/dist/data/cards/co/conventional.json

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{
    "term": "conventional",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general; normal and ordinary, and perhaps not very interesting",
            "labels": "(often disapproving)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**conventional behaviour/morality**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's very conventional in her views."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He turned out to be a very conventional young man."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The imagery in the poem is somewhat conventional."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They rejected what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "following what is traditional or the way something has been done for a long time",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**conventional methods/approaches**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's not a hotel, in the conventional sense, but rather a whole village turned into a hotel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can use a microwave or cook it in a conventional oven."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her face is not beautiful in conventional terms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My sister was taught to read by more conventional methods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Raising such a large amount of money from conventional sources would be difficult."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had a fairly conventional start to her career."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "using the usual scientific methods of Western medicine such as artificial drugs and operations",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**conventional medicine**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Conventional treatments for this condition have been only partially successful."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "not nuclear",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**conventional forces/weapons**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A conventional war would still cause unacceptable devastation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a conventional power station *(= using oil or coal as fuel, rather than nuclear power)*"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the view or belief that most people hold",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Conventional wisdom has it that riots only ever happen in cities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Conventional wisdom has it that all sense of community has gone, but that is not the case where I live."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The received wisdom is that the book is always better than the film."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Contrary to conventional wisdom, stress is not always a bad thing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Popular wisdom has it that higher oil prices are bad for economic growth."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈvenʃənl/",
                "audio": "xc/conventional/xconventional__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈvenʃənl/",
                "audio": "xc/conventional/xconventional__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to a formal agreement or convention’): from French conventionnel or late Latin conventionalis, from Latin conventio(n-) ‘meeting, covenant’, from the verb convenire ‘assemble, agree, fit’, from con- ‘together’ + venire ‘come’."
}