From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtraditionaltra‧di‧tion‧al /trəˈdɪʃənəl/ ●●●S3W1AWL adjective1TRADITIONbeing part of the traditions of a country or group of people
traditional Italian cooking
a traditional Irish folk song
a traditional method of brewing beerit is traditional (for somebody) to do something
It is traditional not to eat meat on Good Friday.2CONVENTIONALfollowing ideas and methods that have existed for a long time, rather than doing anything new or differentSYN conventional
He has a traditional view of women.
I went to a very traditional school.traditional family values
a traditional way of lifeExamples from the Corpustraditional• Tom went to a very traditionalboys' school.• The more traditionalcross symbolised fulfilment; but fulfilment implied a span of existencetranscending the grave.• A group of children will performtraditionaldances.• The local people still use traditionalfarming methods which have been used for hundreds of years.• The restaurant offers a widerange of traditional French food.• Kumar gave the traditionalHindugreeting.• The shift of power, ironically, is a throwback to the traditional House power structure.• the traditional idea that a woman's place is in the home• traditional ideas about education• Here the opposite of traditional is not conforming.• The acrylic is not effective to use in the traditionalopaque sense, it must be treated as a watercolour.• This was the traditionalPrussianstrategy.• Buck-passing is the traditionalreaction to political failure among partisansconcerned about the future of their own causes and careers.• His criticsobjected to the way he broke many of the traditionalrules of art.• Celebratecheese with this trio of fine-flavoured traditionalsoft cheeses.• Many traditionalteachers still think of computers as uselesstoys.• In the US it is traditional to dress up in costumes on Halloween.traditional view• She raged against their ingrained fear of life and their traditional views.• In the traditional view a person perceives the world around him and acts upon it to make it known to him.• Let us begin by examining some traditional views about particular-identity.• Milton has already dispelled our traditional view of an awesome, bestialfigure, in favour of one who possesses a destroyedbeauty.• On the traditional view of the matter, Mrs Mountford not being a lodger must be a tenant.• He clung to the traditional view, stating that the problem was scientifically indeterminate.• The traditional view was that the interests of the company meant the interests of the shareholders.• This was the traditional view which held sway for many years.
