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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Traditional \Tra*di"tion*al\, adjective [Cf. F. traditionnel, LL. traditionalis.]
1. Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
2. Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned. [R.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
traditional
adjective
1: consisting of or derived from tradition; "traditional history"; "traditional morality" [ant: {nontraditional}]
2: pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines; "the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "traditional": Christian, accepted, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, ancestral, approved, authentic, authoritative, autobiographical, being done, biographical, canonical, chronologic, comme il faut, common, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, correct, current, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, firm, fixed, folk, formal, generally accepted, habitual, hagiographic, hallowed, handed down, heroic, historic, historied, historiographic, hoary, household, immemorial, inveterate, legendary, literal, long-established, long-standing, martyrologic, meet, mouth, mythological, normal, obtaining, of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, old, oral, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, popular, prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, proper, received, recognized, regular, regulation, right, ritual, rooted, routine, scriptural, seemly, set, sound, spoken, standard, stock, textual, time-honored, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, usual, venerable, verbal, well-known, widespread, wonted, worshipful
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