traditional

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: tra=di=tion=al
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

traditional, a. [Cf. F. traditionnel, LL. traditionalis.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

traditional, adj.
1 of, based on, or obtained by tradition.
2 (of jazz) in the style of the early 20th c.

Derivative

traditionally adv.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

traditional

Description

N description, account, statement, report, expose, specification, particulars, state of facts, summary of facts, brief, return, catalogue raisonne, guidebook, delineation, sketch, monograph, minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, historiography, chronography, historic Muse, Clio, history, biography, autobiography, necrology, obituary, narrative, history, memoir, memorials, annals, saga, tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette, personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions, anecdote, ana, trait, work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press, fairy tale, nursery tale, fable, parable, apologue, dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator, raconteur, historian, biographer, fabulist, novelist, descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn, historic, traditional, traditionary, legendary, anecdotic, storied, described, furor scribendi.

Oldness

N oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, Sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law, old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contr, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history, Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Paleogene, Neocene, Quaternary, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent, since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah, vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.