traditionaladjective
uk/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/us/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/B1 following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time without changing:
The villagers retain a strong attachment to their traditional values/customs/beliefs.
The school uses a combination of modern and traditional methods for teaching reading.
The dancers were wearing traditional Hungarian dress/costume.
She's very traditional (in her ideas and opinions).
More examples
- Recently there has been some movement away from traditional methods of teaching.
- In Britain, the traditional Sunday lunch consists of roast meat, potatoes and other vegetables.
- In some countries it is traditional for a bride to wear white.
- Here it's traditional that you haggle over the price of things in the market.
- I'm a great lover of traditional Irish music.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Custom, tradition & conformity
- apple pie
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- cue
- fashion
- folk
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- non-traditional
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- scenery
- zeitgeist
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