Meaning of traditional in English

traditional

adjective

/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/ us

/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/

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).

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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.

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(Definition of traditional from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

traditional | American Dictionary

traditional

adjective

/trəˈdɪʃ·ən·əl/

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following or belonging to the ways of behaving or beliefs that have been established for a long time:

the traditional two-parent family

traditional Southern cooking

the traditional politeness of Japanese culture

traditionally

adverb us

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The Democratic Party won a seat in the Senate that has traditionally been held by a Republican.

(Definition of traditional from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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It also suggests that traditional ways of telling the story overlook what sustains ordinary folk intent on finding religious meaning and identity.

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The forests are mainly used for extracting reed - a material used both by traditional artisans and the paper-pulp industry.

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We take this as support for our claim that the traditional responseto-stimulus-mapping view should be replaced by an eventrepresentation view.

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Such systems can help patients in rehabilitation training so that fewer therapists are needed and training can be more enjoyable than traditional systems.

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In contrast, more traditional approaches, such as laboratory-based studies, tend to be disconnected from the lived detail of the work.

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There was a significant additional benefit following training with a high fidelity birth training mannequin compared with traditional training mannequins.

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So far she followed traditional patterns of succession.

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Even though the processing group never produced the structure, they performed just as well as the traditional group on production tasks.

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It is ultimately an uncontentious kind of method, and on the face of it rather traditional.

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In contrast, in traditional design, the role of functions and advantages of functional representation and manipulation are often unclear to researchers outside of the community.

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All of these volumes depend on traditional paradigms drawn from the analysis of instrumental music.

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This is perhaps not surprising given the traditional biophysical emphasis of project impact assessment.

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We can consider both symbolic and exact implementations, and implementations in traditional floating-point arithmetic with various levels of precision.

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The traditional approach to stroke uses a predominantly physical rehabilitation model.

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This necessarily entails the differentiation of the traditional concept of cohort and generation.

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