traditionaltra‧di‧tion‧al /trəˈdɪʃənəl/ ●●● S3 W1 AWL adjective 
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.2following ideas and methods that have existed for a long time, rather than doing anything new or different SYN conventional: He has a traditional view of women. I went to a very traditional school. traditional family values a traditional way of life
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- traditional ideas about education
- A group of children will perform traditional dances.
- Having turkey is traditional at Thanksgiving.
- His critics objected to the way he broke many of the traditional rules of art.
- In the US it is traditional to dress up in costumes on Halloween.
- Kumar gave the traditional Hindu greeting.
- Many traditional teachers still think of computers as useless toys.
- the traditional idea that a woman's place is in the home
- The dancers were wearing traditional African costume.
- The local people still use traditional farming methods which have been used for hundreds of years.
- The restaurant offers a wide range of traditional French food.
- Tom went to a very traditional boys' school.
- Buck-passing is the traditional reaction to political failure among partisans concerned about the future of their own causes and careers.
- Celebrate cheese with this trio of fine-flavoured traditional soft cheeses.
- Here the opposite of traditional is not conforming.
- The acrylic is not effective to use in the traditional opaque sense, it must be treated as a watercolour.
- The more traditional cross symbolised fulfilment; but fulfilment implied a span of existence transcending the grave.
- The shift of power, ironically, is a throwback to the traditional House power structure.
- This was the traditional Prussian strategy.
Longman Language Activatorconventional
conventional people, behaviour, and opinions are the type that most people in society think are normal and socially acceptable, although some people think they are boring and old-fashioned: · Rosemary led a quiet, conventional life until she went to college.· Her outrageous stage act is seen as a challenge to conventional morality.· Acupuncture may work, but I still believe in a more conventional approach to medicine.
thinking and behaving like everyone else, because you do not want to be different: · Your problem is that you are too conformist in your thinking.· Our children's creativity is being beaten down by the conformist educational system.
informal conventional and often fairly boring: · Paul's quite nice but he's awfully straight.· I can't stand it when your friends come to visit - they're so straight.
a conservative person is fairly old-fashioned in their attitudes, beliefs, styles of clothes etc, and does not like change or new ideas. Old-fashioned attitudes, beliefs, styles etc can also be called conservative: · June's parents were very conservative and wouldn't allow her to date till she was 18.· middle-aged men in conservative business suits
especially British typical of the attitudes and way of life of people who are conventional and ordinary, and who disapprove of anyone who does not live or behave like them: · She hated her parents' suburban attitudes.· Despite her suburban clothes and appearance she was popular at college.
doing things in a way that have existed for a long time, and not interested in anything new or different: · Many traditional teachers still think of computers as useless toys.· His critics objected to the way he broke many of the traditional rules of art.
opinions/methods/systems old-fashioned opinions and ways of living were common in the past, but are not the way most people think and behave now: · In those days, people believed that divorce was morally wrong, but this now seems very old-fashioned.· He has some very old-fashioned ideas about women.
outdated opinions, methods, or systems are not suitable for modern times and need to be changed and made more modern: · Outdated laws and regulations are failing to keep crime on the Internet in check.· Outdated textbooks, decrepit buildings, overcrowded classrooms - the list of problems is long and growing.· The image of the civil service as a male, middle class bastion is now outdated.
: outmoded belief/attitude/way of thinking etc a way of thinking that was once popular but is not useful or suitable anymore: · The views of many of the senior professors reflect outmoded concepts and ideas.· The government's outmoded attitudes are dragging the whole country back into the nineteenth century.
traditional opinions, methods, or customs have existed for a long time, and have not been changed or affected by modern ideas: · The local people still use traditional farming methods which have been used for hundreds of years.· the traditional idea that a woman's place is in the home· Tom went to a very traditional boys' school.
a belief or attitude that is unfashionable is no longer fashionable or popular: · Smoking has become very unfashionable in the last ten years.it is unfashionable to do something: · It's unfashionable these days to say you want to get married and give up your job, isn't it?
a tradition a belief, custom, or way of doing something that has existed for a very long time in a particular country or among a particular group of people: · A lot of the old traditions are dying out.· Every village has its own traditions.tradition of: · The region has a tradition of winemaking which goes back to Roman times.tradition that: · It's still the tradition here that the eldest son inherits all the family's money and land.family tradition: · We always go for a long walk on Christmas morning - it's a family tradition.
belonging to the traditions of a country or group of people - use this about music, food, clothes, customs etc: · A group of children will perform traditional dances.traditional African/French/English etc: · The dancers were wearing traditional African costume.· The restaurant offers a wide range of traditional French food.it is traditional to do something: · In the US it is traditional to dress up in costumes on Halloween.
a way of behaving that has existed for a long time among a group of people, and is considered normal or polite - use this especially to talk about other countries or other times: · Sadly, a lot of the old customs are now dying out.custom of: · The custom of sending birthday cards began in the 19th century.it is the custom (for somebody) to do something: · It is the custom in Japan to take your shoes off when you go into someone's house.· In those days it was the custom for farmers to give part of their crop to the lord of the manor.
something that is customary is considered normal or polite because it is the way it is usually done by a group of people: · The man at the hotel welcomed us with the customary greeting.it is customary (for somebody) to do something: · It is customary for the man to propose to the woman.
a custom, belief or way of doing something that has become established and accepted as part of normal life among a particular group of people: · Trading in ivory had become an institution in this part of Africa.institution of: · Church leaders are meeting this week to discuss ways of preserving the institution of marriage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He has a traditional view of women. traditional family valuesCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a lack of concern for conventional morality The rooms are furnished in a modern style. The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat.
He has a traditional view of women. traditional family values· This is different from the traditional approach to high school teaching.
· The tribe still practise many of their traditional ceremonies.
· Mum likes to have a traditional Christmas for all the family.
· Traditional Asian cooking uses a lot of oil.
· The Navajo Indians sell their jewellery and other traditional crafts.
· The people have a traditional culture which has hardly changed in 500 years.
· The children learn about traditional customs, crafts, music, and dance.
· The drum is often used in Africa to accompany traditional dances.
· Our new range of furniture has a traditional design.
(=one you have had a long time)· In 1548, Scotland moved towards an alliance with her traditional enemy, England.
· They want to improve the traditional image of English food.
(=an industry that has been in a particular area for a long time)· The shipyards, the traditional industry in the northeast, had closed.
(=medical treatments that were used before modern medicine)· The plant was used in traditional medicine for the treatment of stomach problems.
(=the usual method)· Farmers are being encouraged to return to more traditional methods of farming.
a lack of concern for conventional morality (=the usual way)· He was not a conservative in the traditional mould.
· Fish oil has been used as a folk remedy since the eighteenth century.
(=one based on ideas that have existed for a long time, without changing)· Some women are happy with their traditional role as carers.
· Many people still believe that old stereotype.
The rooms are furnished in a modern style.· He called for a return to traditional values.
· traditional views about women
The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat. (=at a church, with the bride wearing a white dress)· I wanted a more traditional wedding.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Only those who can afford to ignore these constraints feel capable of exercising a choice to retain a more traditional agricultural landscape.· But the advantages of getting weather on-line instead of through more traditional means are just as clear.· It's more traditional and very smart.· Develop performance-based admissions standards in addition to, or in place of, more traditional entrance requirements.· The new variety was a carefully edited version of a more traditional and informal entertainment.· In Ohio, Sinclair Community College sponsors a more traditional tech-prep program that also includes an extensive work-based learning component.· He turned instead to a more traditional style rooted in his response to landscape.· The Dante Drawings are more traditional in fabrication, the images being rubbed-off transfers from newspaper and magazine prints.
NOUN· The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience.· In part, our failure had to do with our traditional approach to new product development.· Broadly, two approaches can be discussed: the traditional approach and the direct cost approach.· And the work represented varies, from traditional approaches to organic abstractions.· One traditional approach to assessment is stereotypical labelling by practitioners.· The primary differences between these new approaches to measurement and traditional approaches to measurement are summarized in Table 3-I.
· This week's report from the General Household Survey shows that the decline in traditional family life is accelerating.· Increasing mobility and various social changes have made the traditional family an unreliable source of old-age support.· Pirandello was much praised for his insight into the stifling dynamic of the traditional family.· Information about the total student body revealed that dissolution of the traditional family is not uncommon.· The Hindu traditional family has to live with this paradox.· The bulk of the decline in traditional families came between 1970 and 1980, with smaller decreases since then.· Beautifully decorated inside and out, the Maria offers a good standard of accommodation and traditional family hospitality at a reasonable price.· They all consider themselves to be committed Christians and for the most part would uphold traditional family values.
· I am particularly pleased that the traditional form of golf, matchplay, should be the beneficiary of this new-found enthusiasm.· But the difference really shows in the deliberate attempt to abandon traditional forms of school discipline.· This, in traditional form, is a treacly brown colour and lends a definite antique air to what you are polishing.· Does it de-authorize traditional forms of community?· However, most of the research has relied upon a narrow and traditional form of grammar teaching.· Artists who try to re-invent painting while remaining basically within the traditional form of picture plane and support structure.· As with anorexia, the condition tends to recur after traditional forms of hospital treatment in medical or psychiatric units.· Although nowadays they rely on less traditional forms of communication.
· But for the present, crystal users recommend using their treatment to complement, rather than replace, traditional medicine.· He is among a growing minority of physicians combining the standard care of traditional medicine with certain nontraditional treatments and preventive measures.· Much of conventional medicine has its roots in traditional medicine.· Large areas of conventional medicine thus represent particular aspects of traditional medicine systematically developed and extended.· Also he knows a lot about traditional medicines, which, by the way, I believe in one hundred per cent.· Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine with many different practices and prohibitions being part of people's daily life.· Any genuinely popular and empowering health system could not, therefore, ignore or bypass traditional medicine.
· Cast using traditional methods, the bells have the names of faithful parishioners inscribed on them.· Most have relied upon traditional methods for analyzing jobs, by breaking them down into long lists of discrete skills.· The repayment mortgage is the traditional method of arranging a mortgage where capital is repaid by level monthly instalments together with interest.· Traditional producers proudly maintain their commitment to traditional methods and whole hops.· Viewpoints such as these are challenged by teachers who employ more traditional methods.· Accumulated research over many years has shown that these traditional methods are not particularly effective.· We were challenging all the traditional methods of testing for poisons.· The Conservatives, on the other hand, appeared still to accept traditional methods of selection.
· The New Man rejects traditional roles of parenthood and likes to play a part in decision-making.· Why should women value their traditional roles as important when society assigns theta little value?· Discontent with the traditional role of housewife is seen as a middle-class prerogative.· In times of crisis, we slip safely into traditional roles.· Yet these organizations bring women out of the family in ways that do not fundamentally challenge their traditional roles.· Men appear to be no more willing to support women in their traditional roles than women are to assume them.· Following the military coup in February 1991, foreign policy reverted to a more traditional role.· Melanie and Jonathan have fallen into traditional roles without really knowing how it happened. at least on her part.
· Bourdieu's second criticism of Lévi-Strauss is that he misses the very specific nature of the exercise of power in traditional societies.· In traditional societies girl children are regarded as investments on which there is no return.· Lévi-Strauss misses all this by reading power into structures even in traditional society.· Families in traditional societies have such a contract.· In this, modernized societies quite straightforwardly have more highly differentiated social structures than do traditional societies.· It has demonstrated that rapid change is possible in traditional societies if there is an incentive for it.· If subjects exercise symbolic violence in traditional societies, fields or structures produce symbolic goods and hence exercise symbolic violence in modernity.· Only 50 years ago, it was a largely rural, traditional society.
· The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have double glazing.· Separate from these groups was the large mass of youth whose clothes were chain store versions of traditional styles.· Rich and imposing, here the features are grand, and the fine, traditional style impressive.· Valldemosa A small traditional style village which was the source of inspiration for some of Chopin's most romantic compositions.· The pension is recently built, but is finished off in the traditional style.· Julius Caesar favoured a traditional style of portrait, but used his image in a regal manner that traditionalists found offensive.
· Like the patriotic portraits, these embodied traditional values.· State policy will also be used to preserve traditional values, especially regarding family life, religion and culture.· The Leisure 220 embodies this reputation with a mixture of modern styling and traditional values of expert craftsmanship and quality control.· In sum, conservatism attempts to prevent or slow the transition away from a society based on traditional values and social hierarchy.· It seems, too, that traditional values that prescribe a life of domesticity are weakening.· The philosophical importance thus attached to the individual coincided with abandonment of traditional values.· The far right objects that the tests encourage children to criticise traditional values.· It had the advantage of iconoclasm, a pleasing shock-effect which derives from an adolescent sense of mocking traditional values.
· The traditional view was that the interests of the company meant the interests of the shareholders.· She raged against their ingrained fear of life and their traditional views.· The traditional view of a trust is that it was enforceable only in personam, that is against the trustee.· The traditional view is that the ideal time is somewhere between one and two years before you are due to retire.· Of course, Alexander would not in the slightest deny the more traditional view.· Others have persisted in a more traditional view that language learning is essentially the same as the learning of grammar.· This is the traditional view of most constitutional lawyers.· According to traditional views this takes place in the next der of visual areas.
· The traditional way of doing this was through war.· Clearly, before about 1880, Degas rendered all the fast equestrian positions in the already outmoded traditional way.· The traditional way of undertaking market research is through using questionnaires but there are difficulties in gathering information by this method.· As modernization has spread throughout the world, modern attitudes have displaced traditional ways of thinking about what is important in life.· Their traditional ways of raising cash are too expensive: big firms can save millions by borrowing in New York or London.· Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways.· Feminist psychologists usually interpret the value of socially-oriented study in a traditional way, by assimilating it to psychology's scientific project.· Drinking ginger tea and cinnamon tea are traditional ways of keeping healthy in the winter, he says.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.
- Evidence introduced to bolster orthodoxy in one field frequently carried unforeseen implications for conventional wisdom in another.
- He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
- Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
- That is all as it should be: but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom.
- This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.
- Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.
- We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom.
WORD FAMILYnountraditiontraditionalisttraditionalismadjectivetraditionaltraditionalistadverbtraditionally
1being 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.2following ideas and methods that have existed for a long time, rather than doing anything new or different SYN conventional: He has a traditional view of women. I went to a very traditional school. traditional family values a traditional way of life