TRADITIONAL


Meaning of TRADITIONAL in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a traditional ceremony

The tribe still practise many of their traditional ceremonies.

a traditional Christmas

Mum likes to have a traditional Christmas for all the family.

a traditional custom

The children learn about traditional customs, crafts, music, and dance.

a traditional dance

The drum is often used in Africa to accompany traditional dances.

a traditional industry (= an industry that has been in a particular area for a long time )

The shipyards, the traditional industry in the north east, had closed.

a traditional wedding (= at a church, with the bride wearing a white dress )

I wanted a more traditional wedding.

a traditional/ancient craft

The Navajo Indians sell their jewellery and other traditional crafts.

a traditional/conservative approach

This is different from the traditional approach to high school teaching.

a traditional/folk remedy

Fish oil has been used as a folk remedy since the eighteenth century.

an old/traditional enemy (= one you have had a long time )

In 1548, Scotland moved towards an alliance with her traditional enemy, England.

an old/traditional stereotype

Many people still believe that old stereotype.

conventional/traditional morality

a lack of concern for conventional morality

sb’s traditional role (= one based on ideas that have existed for a long time, without changing )

Some women are happy with their traditional role as carers.

the traditional image of sth

They want to improve the traditional image of English food.

the traditional method (= the usual method )

Farmers are being encouraged to return to more traditional methods of farming.

the traditional/classic mould (= the usual way )

He was not a conservative in the traditional mould.

traditional cooking

Traditional Asian cooking uses a lot of oil.

traditional medicine (= medical treatments that were used before modern medicine )

The plant was used in traditional medicine for the treatment of stomach problems.

traditional values

He called for a return to traditional values.

traditional way of life

The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat.

traditional

traditional views about women

traditional

Our new range of furniture has a traditional design.

traditional/ancient culture

The people have a traditional culture which has hardly changed in 500 years.

traditional/modern style

The rooms are furnished in a modern style.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

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

approach

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.

family

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.

form

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.

medicine

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 .

method

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.

role

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.

society

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 .

style

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.

value

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 .

view

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.

way

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

(the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom

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 .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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.

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