noun

1. A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.

adjective

1. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.

2. Ordinary, commonplace.

   “They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.”

3. Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.

Synonyms: stereotypical, canonical, typical