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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
traditionalist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm something of a traditionalist myself, I'd much rather use pen and paper than a word-processor.
▪ There are still many traditionalists in the church who strongly oppose the idea of women priests.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And now the one the players have chosen themselves on a split vote is sure to anger the traditionalists.
▪ For traditionalists, Marks has included all the familiar recipes as well.
▪ Ray, on the other hand, is more of a traditionalist.
▪ Some of these are avowed traditionalists.
▪ The traditionalists who cling to uptight Wall Street business wardrobes and rooms full of Hepplewhite reproductions are exiled to style Siberia.
▪ The government looked so vulnerable that even irreproachable traditionalists among the landowning nobility concluded that political reform was inescapable.
▪ There will be traditionalists who lament the change, but the company's founder was no traditionalist.
▪ Voters here have always been drawn to against-the-grain outsiders who make a career of thumbing their noses at party traditionalists.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traditionalist

Traditionalist \Tra*di"tion*al*ist\, n. An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.

Wiktionary
traditionalist

n. 1 A person who adheres to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practices 2 (cx climbing English) A traditional climbing climber

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WordNet
traditionalist

n. one who adheres to traditional views [syn: diehard]

traditionalist

adj. stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded [syn: hidebound]

Usage examples of "traditionalist".

World three hundred twenty-seven months ago, oldest of eight children born to a traditionalist couple, Senator Vasura Tonge and her husband, Marchal Hisetti, a doctor.

Some surfers have had friends on jet skis tow them up to speed so that they can catch the biggest waves, but traditionalists regard that as cheating.

Granted, a few old Mafia traditionalists still use car trunks, but only because New York has so little open space for regular dumping.

The traditionalists insist they are not vitalists and point out that the molecular biologists are biochemists by training and know virtually nothing of biology.

The molecular biologists insist that the traditionalists are vitalists and stubbornly insist on the molecularbiological road to ultimate biological truth.

By playing the strict traditionalist, Rabbi Mayer makes the congregants feel as if they are being the type of Jew of whom their parents would approve.

Barodahn carried the daggered axe of his clan's traditionalists upon his back, and Thankhar's hand was hooked nonchalantly into his belt, inches from the hilt of his longsword.

Your classic biker is a traditionalist: raggedy-assed denim, heavy boots, wind-in-the-armpits vests covered with faded patches, with the rawhide-faced old mamas favoring fringed leather bras and lots of body piercings.

In religion, Anglicans and members of the conservative branch of the Dutch Reformed Church, Catholics, and (generally speaking) traditionalists in any given denomination were likely to be loyalists.

He can demur, and say that the alliance was formed out of popular opinion, and his bid for the imperial crown was not his doing at all, but one launched by traditionalists in his behalf as the most worthy candidate.

No weaseling, no horse trading, no quid pro quo power brokering between you traditionalists and me.