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traditional Definition

tra·di·tional (trə dis̸h′ə nəl)

adjective

  1. of, handed down by, or conforming to tradition; conventional
    also traditionary tra·di′·tion·ar′y (-ner′ē) or Raretraditive trad′i·tive (trad′ə tiv)
  2. designating or of a style of improvised jazz associated historically with early black New Orleans musicians and typically played by a band made up of one or two cornets, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section that includes a banjo and a tuba

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modif.

  1. Handed down orally

    folkloric, legendary, mythical, epical, ancestral, unwritten, balladic, told, handed down, fabulous, anecdotal, proverbial, inherited, folkloristic.

  2. Generally accepted

    old, acknowledged, customary, habitual, widespread, usual, widely used, popular, acceptable, established, fixed, sanctioned, universal, doctrinal, disciplinary, taken for granted, immemorial, rooted, classical, prescribed, conventional; see also common 1, regular 3.

traditional Usage Examples

Infinitive complement

  • use: As a matter of statistical convenience it has been traditional to use what are called workforce based rates.

Modifies a noun

  • method: Many of the wet meadows are managed by the traditional method of grazing with cattle.
  • style: We can offer the traditional style of Wedding Photographs where you will have a number of posed groups for your album.
  • medicine: Australia that is traditional chinese medicine would reflect the.
  • music: Back then, traditional music had bad press in France.
  • dish: They also taste excellent and can add a welcome new dimension to many ordinary or traditional dishes.
  • pub: It will be a traditional pub with contemporary twist.

Modifying Another Word

  • fairly: The 9am Choir, under the direction of Kathy Underhill, is fairly traditional in its approach.
  • mainly: The list of poems available is impressively long, the style mainly traditional.
  • truly: We simply do not know when many traditional designs originated ( or in many cases if they are truly traditional at all ).
  • very: The styles range from the very traditional to modern music.
  • however: However traditional cherry dishes still survive such as Cherry Batter, for example, which probably came from France with the Normans.
  • now: The now traditional races and endurance tests were held in the Theater at the end of the course.

Used with adjective complement

  • sing: Richard Woods Richard Woods comes from the Wirral plays guitar and sings traditional, through contemporary songs and tunes.
  • know: Themlove in the in addition sobredo the perfect accessory who knows traditional.
  • include: Our repertoire includes Traditional, modern, secular and hymnal music to meet most tastes.
  • seem: This view may indeed seem traditional, but it voices a genuine concern that students should learn deeply and thoroughly.
  • use: His handiwork was of a high standard and Eric used traditional cobbling techniques such as hand stitching and hot waxing.
  • provide: Whatever your needs, M J Wright & Sons Ltd aim to provide traditional, world-class craftsmanship and service, second to none.
traditional Quotes

He understood†Walt Whitman, who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary, and Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor.

—Lodge, David John

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Hunting the author, painter and musician is a traditional and popular sport. In this country poet-baiting at an early stage assumed the place of bull-baiting.

—Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert

The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, assuming that humanity survives long enough to reach a period in whichsuch a benefit ispossible.If, however, we proceed along the clear and obvious lines of our traditional behavior, and follow our traditional worship of progress and the fifth freedomöthe freedom to exploitöit is practically certain that we shall have to face a decade or more of ruin and despair.

—Wiener, Norbert

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

—Galbraith,John Kenneth

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

—Frye, Northrop