单词 | traditional |
释义 | traditional (once / 244 pages) adj Traditional can describe anything that follows tradition, or a usual way of doing things. Traditional Mexican food includes tortillas and beans. A bag of corn chips with chili and fake cheese sauce, on the other hand, is not traditional. A tradition can be personal or national, and the adjective traditional has tons of uses. Traditional football might require a brown pigskin ball or a white soccer ball, depending on where you live. Your traditional national costume could be a sari, while your friend's is a kimono. And that walking taco? It's traditional carnival food for some. WORD FAMILYtraditional: nontraditional, traditionalism, traditionality, traditionally, untraditional+/nontraditional: nontraditionally/tradition: traditional, traditions/traditionalism: traditionalist, traditionalistic/traditionalist: traditionalists/untraditional: untraditionally USAGE EXAMPLESGetting people in rural areas onto the national grid is proving too difficult and traditional solar panels generate meagre amounts of energy. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Intrepid to the galleries of the Brooklyn Museum and to dozens of more traditional spaces. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) This trend, of course, reflects how new technology is radically changing many traditional businesses. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj consisting of or derived from tradition traditional history traditional morality Syn|Ant conventional in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past handed-down, tralatitioushaving been passed along from generation to generation traditionalisticadhering to tradition especially in cultural or religious practices nontraditional, untraditional not conforming to or in accord with tradition 2adj pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished Syn orthodox adhering to what is commonly accepted |
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