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{
"term": "traditional",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "being part of the beliefs, customs or way of life of a particular group of people, that have not changed for a long time",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "traditional dress/music/art/culture/dance"
},
{
"text": "**It's traditional** in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day."
},
{
"text": "traditional values/practices/beliefs"
},
{
"text": "Acupuncture has long been a part of traditional Chinese medicine."
},
{
"text": "Janet makes cheese by traditional methods."
},
{
"text": "Cinema poses a threat to traditional art forms."
},
{
"text": "Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish."
},
{
"text": "Most of the buildings are in the traditional style."
},
{
"text": "The band plays traditional Celtic music."
},
{
"text": "They watched the Emperor perform the traditional ceremonies."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "following older methods and ideas rather than modern or different ones",
"labels": "(sometimes disapproving)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **traditional method/way** of doing something"
},
{
"text": "traditional methods of teaching"
},
{
"text": "a traditional approach/view"
},
{
"text": "Their marriage is very traditional."
},
{
"text": "the traditional female role of homemaker"
},
{
"text": "He was raised in a traditional patriarchal family."
},
{
"text": "Candidates may use traditional book format dictionaries or electronic ones."
},
{
"text": "I'm a very traditional guy."
},
{
"text": "She had a very traditional ambition: to marry her childhood sweetheart."
},
{
"text": "The artists wanted to break with traditional conventions."
},
{
"text": "Traditional attitudes to divorce were changing."
}
],
"topics": ["Buildings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/trəˈdɪʃənl/",
"audio": "tr/traditional/traditional__gb_4.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/trəˈdɪʃənl/",
"audio": "tr/traditional/traditional__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}