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trad

  • /tɹæd/ US

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Shortening of traditional.

adjective

  1. not comparable Traditional. I've been listening to trad jazz lately.

noun trads

  1. countable, uncountable Traditional climbing.
  2. countable, uncountable Irish traditional music Miltown Malbay hosts the annual Willie Clancy Irish Music Festival, one of Ireland's great trad music events.
  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.
  4. countable, informal, uncountable Anything traditional, such as a school or a model of car.

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MLA

"trad." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/trad. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

trad. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/trad

Chicago

"trad." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/trad.

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@misc{trad_2026,
  title = {trad},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trad},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}