traditional

English

Etymology

From tradition +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹəˈdɪʃənəl/, /tɹəˈdɪʃnəl/

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Adjective

traditional (comparative more traditional, superlative most traditional)

1. Of, relating to, or derived from tradition.

   This dance is one of the traditional customs in the area.

   I think her traditional values are antiquated.

2. Communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only.

   traditional expositions of the Scriptures

3. Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
4. In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
5. Relating to traditional Chinese.

   Coordinate term: simplified

   The traditional form of the character has twice as many strokes as the simplified form.

Synonyms

• traditionary

Antonyms

• nontraditional, non-traditional
• untraditional

Derived terms

• African traditional religion
• antitraditional
• Chinese traditional medicine, traditional Chinese medicine
• detraditionalize
• ethnotraditional
• neotraditional
• nontraditional, non-traditional
• pseudotraditional
• quasi-traditional
• traditional art
• traditional birth attendant
• Traditional Chinese
• traditional climber
• traditional climbing
• traditional county
• Traditional Egyptian
• traditional grip
• traditionalise, traditionalize
• traditionalism
• traditionalist
• traditionalistic
• traditionality
• traditional jazz
• traditionally
• traditional marriage
• traditional medicine
• traditionalness
• traditional owner
• traditional publisher
• traditional right
• traditional student
• ultratraditional
• untraditional

 

Related terms

• catholic
• conservative
• ordinary
• original
• puritanical
• standard
• stereotypical
• tradition
• typical
• usual

 

Translations

of or pertaining to tradition

• Arabic: تَقْلِيدِيّ (taqlīdiyy)
• Aragonese: tradizional
• Armenian: ավանդական (hy) (avandakan)
• Asturian: tradicional
• Azerbaijani: ənənəvi
• Basque: tradizional
• Belarusian: традыцы́йны (tradycýjny)
• Bengali: রেওয়াজী (bn) (reẇajī)
• Bulgarian: традицио́нен (bg) (tradiciónen)
• Catalan: tradicional (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳統的／传统的 (zh) (chuántǒng de)

• Czech: tradiční (cs)
• Danish: traditionel
• Dutch: traditioneel (nl)
• Esperanto: tradicia
• Faroese: vanabundin, hevdbundin, siðbundin
• Finnish: perinteinen (fi)
• French: traditionnel (fr)
• Galician: tradicional (gl)
• Georgian: ტრადიციული (ṭradiciuli)
• German: traditionell (de), herkömmlich (de), überliefert (de)
• Greek: παραδοσιακός (el) (paradosiakós)

  Ancient: παραδεδομένος (paradedoménos)

• Hebrew: מָסָרְתִּי (he) (masortí)
• Hindi: परंपरागत (hi) (paramprāgat)
• Hungarian: hagyományos (hu)
• Ido: tradicionala (io)
• Indonesian: tradisional (id), tradisionil (displaced)
• Irish: traidisiúnta
• Italian: tradizionale (it), normale (it), ordinario (it), familiare (it), comune (it)
• Japanese: 伝統的な (ja) (でんとうてきな, dentōteki na)
• Kazakh: дәстүрлі (dästürlı)
• Khmer: ប្រពៃណី (km) (prɑpeynii), ជាប្រពៃណី (cie prɑpeynii)
• Korean: 전통(傳統) (ko) (jeontong), 전통적(傳統的) (ko) (jeontongjeok)
• Latin: translaticius
• Latvian: tradicionāls
• Luhya: butamaduni
• Macedonian: традициона́лен (tradicionálen)
• Malay: tradisional, tradisi
• Malayalam: പരമ്പരാഗത (paramparāgata)
• Maltese: tradizzjonali
• Maori: o tuawhakarere
• Mirandese: tradicional
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tradisjonell (no)

  Nynorsk: tradisjonell

• Occitan: tradicional (oc)
• Persian: سنتی (fa) (sonati)
• Polish: tradycyjny (pl), zwyczajowy (pl)
• Portuguese: tradicional (pt)
• Romanian: tradițional (ro)
• Russian: традицио́нный (ru) (tradiciónnyj)
• Scots: tradeetional
• Scottish Gaelic: seann-nòsach, traidiseanta
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тра̏дициона̄лан

  Roman: trȁdicionālan (sh)

• Sicilian: tradizzionali
• Slovak: tradičný
• Slovene: tradícijski
• Spanish: tradicional (es)
• Swahili: kienyeji (sw), -a kidesturi
• Swedish: traditionell (sv)
• Tagalog: kinamihasnan
• Thai: โบราณ (th) (boo-raan), ดั้งเดิม (th) (dâng-dəəm)
• Tibetan: ཡུལ་སྲོལ་གྱི (yul srol gyi)
• Turkish: geleneksel (tr)
• Ukrainian: традиці́йний (tradycíjnyj)
• Uzbek: anʼanaviy (uz)
• Vietnamese: truyền thống (vi), theo truyền thống
• Welsh: traddodiadol (cy)
• Yiddish: טראַדיציאָנעל (traditsyonel)

observant of tradition

• Azerbaijani: ənənəvi
• Catalan: tradicionalista
• Faroese: hevdbundin
• Finnish: vanhanaikainen (fi)
• Galician: tradicional (gl)
• German: traditionell (de), traditionsgetreu, altmodisch (de)
• Greek: παραδοσιακός (el) (paradosiakós)
• Irish: traidisiúnta
• Italian: tradizionalista (it)
• Macedonian: традициона́лен (tradicionálen)
• Malay: tradisi, tradisional
• Maltese: tradizzjonali
• Portuguese: tradicionalista
• Russian: традицио́нный (ru) (tradiciónnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: seann-nòsach, traidiseanta
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тра̏дициона̄лан

  Roman: trȁdicionālan (sh)

• Slovene: tradicionálen
• Spanish: tradicionalista
• Swahili: kienyeji (sw)
• Turkish: gelenekçi (tr)

Noun

traditional (countable and uncountable, plural traditionals)

1. A person with traditional beliefs.
2. (usually in the plural) Anything that is traditional, conventional, standard.
   • 1984 April 21, Maida Tilchen, “New Song, New Feminism, New Gay Awareness”, in Gay Community News, page 16:

     Singer Paula Elliot closed the evening's performances with a number of gospel, jazz and blues tunes. Elliot concentrated mostly on traditionals like "Motherless Child," "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," "God Bless the Child," and "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues."

3. (informal, uncountable) Short for traditional Chinese.

   Coordinate term: simplified

4. (informal, uncountable) Short for traditional art (“art produced with real physical media”).

   Coordinate term: digital

5. (informal, uncountable, music) Short for traditional grip.

   Coordinate term: matched