traditional
IPA: trʌdˈɪʃʌnʌɫ
noun
- A person with traditional beliefs.
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is traditional, conventional, standard.
- (informal, uncountable) Short for traditional Chinese.
- (informal, uncountable) Short for traditional art (“art produced with real physical media”). [Art that is a part of the culture of a group of people, skills and knowledge of which are passed down through generations from master craftsmen to apprentices.]
- (informal, uncountable, music) Short for traditional grip. [(music) A method of holding drum sticks in which the right hand uses an overhand grip and the left hand uses an underhand grip.]
adjective
- Of, relating to, or derived from tradition.
- Communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only.
- Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
- In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
- Relating to traditional Chinese.
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Examples of "traditional" in Sentences
- The old town has the traditional illumination.
- Furnishing of the rooms shows traditional middle europe style.
- He is primarily a portraitist and paints in a traditional style.
- The two Columbia carousels are the traditional style of carousel.
- Why shift from old, scholarly, and traditional to new, faddish, and untested
- It smacked of something old, something traditional, something unclouded by legerdemain and subterfuge.
- In a written statement, the group drew a distinction between Wall Street and what it called traditional forms of capitalism.
- The term traditional diet once meant a plain, none-too-varied regional diet that was the standard fare of farmers and laborers.
- He said China and Sudan have what he described as a traditional friendship, and have maintained frequent mutual visits, especially in recent years.
- A common position on what we call traditional shamanism -- ancient and indigenous tribes with exclusive cultural rituals and cosmology -- is that it is a religion.
- We are the social workers, psychiatrists, workers at homeless shelters and rape crisis centers -- and still some people and groups blame us for the breakup of what they call the "traditional American family."
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