adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a traditional ceremony
▪ The tribe still practise many of their traditional ceremonies.
a traditional Christmas
▪ Mum likes to have a traditional Christmas for all the family.
a traditional custom
▪ The children learn about traditional customs, crafts, music, and dance.
a traditional dance
▪ The drum is often used in Africa to accompany traditional dances.
a traditional industry (=an industry that has been in a particular area for a long time )
▪ The shipyards, the traditional industry in the north east, had closed.
a traditional wedding (=at a church, with the bride wearing a white dress)
▪ I wanted a more traditional wedding.
a traditional/ancient craft
▪ The Navajo Indians sell their jewellery and other traditional crafts.
a traditional/conservative approach
▪ This is different from the traditional approach to high school teaching.
a traditional/folk remedy
▪ Fish oil has been used as a folk remedy since the eighteenth century.
an old/traditional enemy (=one you have had a long time)
▪ In 1548, Scotland moved towards an alliance with her traditional enemy, England.
an old/traditional stereotype
▪ Many people still believe that old stereotype.
conventional/traditional morality
▪ a lack of concern for conventional morality
sb’s traditional role (=one based on ideas that have existed for a long time, without changing)
▪ Some women are happy with their traditional role as carers.
the traditional image of sth
▪ They want to improve the traditional image of English food.
the traditional method (=the usual method)
▪ Farmers are being encouraged to return to more traditional methods of farming.
the traditional/classic mould (=the usual way)
▪ He was not a conservative in the traditional mould.
traditional cooking
▪ Traditional Asian cooking uses a lot of oil.
traditional medicine (=medical treatments that were used before modern medicine)
▪ The plant was used in traditional medicine for the treatment of stomach problems.
traditional values
▪ He called for a return to traditional values.
traditional way of life
▪ The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat.
traditional
▪ traditional views about women
traditional
▪ Our new range of furniture has a traditional design.
traditional/ancient culture
▪ The people have a traditional culture which has hardly changed in 500 years.
traditional/modern style
▪ The rooms are furnished in a modern style.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Only those who can afford to ignore these constraints feel capable of exercising a choice to retain a more traditional agricultural landscape.
▪ But the advantages of getting weather on-line instead of through more traditional means are just as clear.
▪ It's more traditional and very smart.
▪ Develop performance-based admissions standards in addition to, or in place of, more traditional entrance requirements.
▪ The new variety was a carefully edited version of a more traditional and informal entertainment.
▪ In Ohio, Sinclair Community College sponsors a more traditional tech-prep program that also includes an extensive work-based learning component.
▪ He turned instead to a more traditional style rooted in his response to landscape.
▪ The Dante Drawings are more traditional in fabrication, the images being rubbed-off transfers from newspaper and magazine prints.
■ NOUN
approach
▪ The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience.
▪ In part, our failure had to do with our traditional approach to new product development.
▪ Broadly, two approaches can be discussed: the traditional approach and the direct cost approach.
▪ And the work represented varies, from traditional approaches to organic abstractions.
▪ One traditional approach to assessment is stereotypical labelling by practitioners.
▪ The primary differences between these new approaches to measurement and traditional approaches to measurement are summarized in Table 3-I.
family
▪ This week's report from the General Household Survey shows that the decline in traditional family life is accelerating.
▪ Increasing mobility and various social changes have made the traditional family an unreliable source of old-age support.
▪ Pirandello was much praised for his insight into the stifling dynamic of the traditional family.
▪ Information about the total student body revealed that dissolution of the traditional family is not uncommon.
▪ The Hindu traditional family has to live with this paradox.
▪ The bulk of the decline in traditional families came between 1970 and 1980, with smaller decreases since then.
▪ Beautifully decorated inside and out, the Maria offers a good standard of accommodation and traditional family hospitality at a reasonable price.
▪ They all consider themselves to be committed Christians and for the most part would uphold traditional family values.
form
▪ I am particularly pleased that the traditional form of golf, matchplay, should be the beneficiary of this new-found enthusiasm.
▪ But the difference really shows in the deliberate attempt to abandon traditional forms of school discipline.
▪ This, in traditional form, is a treacly brown colour and lends a definite antique air to what you are polishing.
▪ Does it de-authorize traditional forms of community?
▪ However, most of the research has relied upon a narrow and traditional form of grammar teaching.
▪ Artists who try to re-invent painting while remaining basically within the traditional form of picture plane and support structure.
▪ As with anorexia, the condition tends to recur after traditional forms of hospital treatment in medical or psychiatric units.
▪ Although nowadays they rely on less traditional forms of communication.
medicine
▪ But for the present, crystal users recommend using their treatment to complement, rather than replace, traditional medicine.
▪ He is among a growing minority of physicians combining the standard care of traditional medicine with certain nontraditional treatments and preventive measures.
▪ Much of conventional medicine has its roots in traditional medicine.
▪ Large areas of conventional medicine thus represent particular aspects of traditional medicine systematically developed and extended.
▪ Also he knows a lot about traditional medicines, which, by the way, I believe in one hundred per cent.
▪ Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine with many different practices and prohibitions being part of people's daily life.
▪ Any genuinely popular and empowering health system could not, therefore, ignore or bypass traditional medicine.
method
▪ Cast using traditional methods, the bells have the names of faithful parishioners inscribed on them.
▪ Most have relied upon traditional methods for analyzing jobs, by breaking them down into long lists of discrete skills.
▪ The repayment mortgage is the traditional method of arranging a mortgage where capital is repaid by level monthly instalments together with interest.
▪ Traditional producers proudly maintain their commitment to traditional methods and whole hops.
▪ Viewpoints such as these are challenged by teachers who employ more traditional methods.
▪ Accumulated research over many years has shown that these traditional methods are not particularly effective.
▪ We were challenging all the traditional methods of testing for poisons.
▪ The Conservatives, on the other hand, appeared still to accept traditional methods of selection.
role
▪ The New Man rejects traditional roles of parenthood and likes to play a part in decision-making.
▪ Why should women value their traditional roles as important when society assigns theta little value?
▪ Discontent with the traditional role of housewife is seen as a middle-class prerogative.
▪ In times of crisis, we slip safely into traditional roles.
▪ Yet these organizations bring women out of the family in ways that do not fundamentally challenge their traditional roles.
▪ Men appear to be no more willing to support women in their traditional roles than women are to assume them.
▪ Following the military coup in February 1991, foreign policy reverted to a more traditional role.
▪ Melanie and Jonathan have fallen into traditional roles without really knowing how it happened. at least on her part.
society
▪ Bourdieu's second criticism of Lévi-Strauss is that he misses the very specific nature of the exercise of power in traditional societies.
▪ In traditional societies girl children are regarded as investments on which there is no return.
▪ Lévi-Strauss misses all this by reading power into structures even in traditional society.
▪ Families in traditional societies have such a contract.
▪ In this, modernized societies quite straightforwardly have more highly differentiated social structures than do traditional societies.
▪ It has demonstrated that rapid change is possible in traditional societies if there is an incentive for it.
▪ If subjects exercise symbolic violence in traditional societies, fields or structures produce symbolic goods and hence exercise symbolic violence in modernity.
▪ Only 50 years ago, it was a largely rural, traditional society.
style
▪ The bedrooms are furnished in a traditional style and have double glazing.
▪ Separate from these groups was the large mass of youth whose clothes were chain store versions of traditional styles.
▪ Rich and imposing, here the features are grand, and the fine, traditional style impressive.
▪ Valldemosa A small traditional style village which was the source of inspiration for some of Chopin's most romantic compositions.
▪ The pension is recently built, but is finished off in the traditional style.
▪ Julius Caesar favoured a traditional style of portrait, but used his image in a regal manner that traditionalists found offensive.
value
▪ Like the patriotic portraits, these embodied traditional values.
▪ State policy will also be used to preserve traditional values, especially regarding family life, religion and culture.
▪ The Leisure 220 embodies this reputation with a mixture of modern styling and traditional values of expert craftsmanship and quality control.
▪ In sum, conservatism attempts to prevent or slow the transition away from a society based on traditional values and social hierarchy.
▪ It seems, too, that traditional values that prescribe a life of domesticity are weakening.
▪ The philosophical importance thus attached to the individual coincided with abandonment of traditional values.
▪ The far right objects that the tests encourage children to criticise traditional values.
▪ It had the advantage of iconoclasm, a pleasing shock-effect which derives from an adolescent sense of mocking traditional values.
view
▪ The traditional view was that the interests of the company meant the interests of the shareholders.
▪ She raged against their ingrained fear of life and their traditional views.
▪ The traditional view of a trust is that it was enforceable only in personam, that is against the trustee.
▪ The traditional view is that the ideal time is somewhere between one and two years before you are due to retire.
▪ Of course, Alexander would not in the slightest deny the more traditional view.
▪ Others have persisted in a more traditional view that language learning is essentially the same as the learning of grammar.
▪ This is the traditional view of most constitutional lawyers.
▪ According to traditional views this takes place in the next der of visual areas.
way
▪ The traditional way of doing this was through war.
▪ Clearly, before about 1880, Degas rendered all the fast equestrian positions in the already outmoded traditional way.
▪ The traditional way of undertaking market research is through using questionnaires but there are difficulties in gathering information by this method.
▪ As modernization has spread throughout the world, modern attitudes have displaced traditional ways of thinking about what is important in life.
▪ Their traditional ways of raising cash are too expensive: big firms can save millions by borrowing in New York or London.
▪ Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways.
▪ Feminist psychologists usually interpret the value of socially-oriented study in a traditional way, by assimilating it to psychology's scientific project.
▪ Drinking ginger tea and cinnamon tea are traditional ways of keeping healthy in the winter, he says.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(the) conventional/received/traditional etc wisdom
▪ Clear-thinking organizations rely on cost justification to reveal these truths, even if they run counter to current plans and conventional wisdom.
▪ Evidence introduced to bolster orthodoxy in one field frequently carried unforeseen implications for conventional wisdom in another.
▪ He set out a scenario which ran against the conventional wisdom at the time.
▪ Nothing is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom than the cliche that economic life is endlessly and inherently uncertain.
▪ That is all as it should be: but there are some dangers in conventional wisdom.
▪ This pre-eminently is an occasion when we would expect the conventional wisdom to lose touch with the reality.
▪ Under the stress of circumstance, the conventional wisdom is rejected.
▪ We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ traditional ideas about education
▪ A group of children will perform traditional dances.
▪ Having turkey is traditional at Thanksgiving.
▪ His critics objected to the way he broke many of the traditional rules of art.
▪ In the US it is traditional to dress up in costumes on Halloween.
▪ Kumar gave the traditional Hindu greeting.
▪ Many traditional teachers still think of computers as useless toys.
▪ the traditional idea that a woman's place is in the home
▪ The dancers were wearing traditional African costume.
▪ The local people still use traditional farming methods which have been used for hundreds of years.
▪ The restaurant offers a wide range of traditional French food.
▪ Tom went to a very traditional boys' school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Buck-passing is the traditional reaction to political failure among partisans concerned about the future of their own causes and careers.
▪ Celebrate cheese with this trio of fine-flavoured traditional soft cheeses.
▪ Here the opposite of traditional is not conforming.
▪ The acrylic is not effective to use in the traditional opaque sense, it must be treated as a watercolour.
▪ The more traditional cross symbolised fulfilment; but fulfilment implied a span of existence transcending the grave.
▪ The shift of power, ironically, is a throwback to the traditional House power structure.
▪ This was the traditional Prussian strategy.