- being part of the beliefs, customs or way of life of a particular group of people, that have not changed for a long time
- traditional dress/music/art/culture/dance
- It's traditional in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
- traditional values/practices/beliefs
- Acupuncture has long been a part of traditional Chinese medicine.
- Janet makes cheese by traditional methods.
- Cinema poses a threat to traditional art forms.
Extra Examples- Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish.
- Most of the buildings are in the traditional style.
- The band plays traditional Celtic music.
- They watched the Emperor perform the traditional ceremonies.
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- (sometimes disapproving) following older methods and ideas rather than modern or different ones synonym conventional
- a traditional method/way of doing something
- traditional methods of teaching
- a traditional approach/view
- Their marriage is very traditional.
- the traditional female role of homemaker
- He was raised in a traditional patriarchal family.
Extra ExamplesTopics Buildingsa2- Candidates may use traditional book format dictionaries or electronic ones.
- I'm a very traditional guy.
- She had a very traditional ambition: to marry her childhood sweetheart.
- The artists wanted to break with traditional conventions.
- Traditional attitudes to divorce were changing.
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