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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