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trad en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /tɹæd/ (General-American)

Etymology

Shortening of traditional.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Traditional.
    • There are a couple of soups, a hot dish, a quichey option, a salad of the day, good trad puds and that’s about it. 2002 October, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants, 2003/5th edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 187:
    • I've been listening to trad jazz lately.
    • Ultimately, this is what unites the Collinses with the more “trad” wings of the natalist movement, from the nativists to the Christian nationalists: pushing back on social and cultural changes they see as imposed on them by outside forces. 2024 April 28, Gaby Del Valle, “The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population”, in POLITICO:

trad en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /tɹæd/ (General-American)

Etymology

Shortening of traditional.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Traditional climbing.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Irish traditional music
    • Galway is the heart of Trad— the city and its environs have nurtured some of the most durable names in Irish music. 2010, Fodor's Ireland 2010:
    • Miltown Malbay hosts the annual Willie Clancy Irish Music Festival, one of Ireland's great trad music events. 2017, Lonely Planet Ireland's Best Trips:
  3. (countable, informal, uncountable) A traditionalist.
    • And just because leftoids make tripe from their position of strength is no reason for trads to make schlock from their position of weakness. 2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind:
  4. (countable, informal, uncountable) Anything traditional, such as a school or a model of car.

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Deriveds

trad-pub · trad pub · traddy · tradlarper · non-trad · tradlarp · tradthot · trad climber · tradcath · trad son · trad bolted · tradwife · trad jazz · rad trad