trad
US/tɹæd/
trad adjective: traditional.
Adjective
trad (not comparable)
- Traditional.
- I've been listening to trad jazz lately.
- 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
Noun
trad (countable and uncountable, plural trads)
- Traditional climbing.
- Irish traditional music
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Anything traditional, such as a school or a model of car.
Forms of trad
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Origin of trad
Shortening of traditional.
Words formed from trad
Phrases with trad
Questions about trad
- What does trad mean?
- Trad means traditional.
- What part of speech is trad?
- Trad can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce trad?
- Trad is pronounced /tɹæd/ (US).
Words near trad in the dictionary
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