traditional
part of speech
adjective (traditional, more traditional, most traditional)
meaning for a pupil
1) Traditional means done the same way for a long time and passed down from older people to younger people. tree →
2) Traditional also means old-fashioned or usual, not new or modern. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history, RE and citizenship lessons, pupils learn about traditional food, dress, music, stories and festivals of different cultures. In English, traditional tales are fairy tales and folk tales like «Goldilocks» or «Jack and the Beanstalk». Phrases: «traditional tale», «traditional dress», «traditional recipe», «traditional way».
examples
- We read a traditional tale about a clever fox. tree →
- Haggis is a traditional Scottish food. tree →
- She wore traditional dress for the festival. tree →
- Morris dancing is a traditional English dance. tree →
- Grandma makes the cake the traditional way. tree →
- The Maori haka is a traditional dance from New Zealand. tree →
- Many families have a traditional meal on holidays. tree →
- Our school has a traditional sports day every summer. tree →
note
Adjective from «tradition» + -al. Spelling: traditional (one d after a, then -tional). «Traditional tale» is the term many schools use for fairy and folk tales. Opposite: modern.
In the corpora
- Bulls cannot see red well; a bull charges at the movement of the cape, and red is just the traditional colour.
- The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand, done when you are invited.
- The hongi is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand: people press noses and foreheads to share breath, done when invited.
- Kyiv's traditional founding date is AD 482, which makes it 1,544 years old in 2026; the date comes from old stories.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «traditional» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.