trad

See also: Appendix:Variations of "trad"

English

Etymology

Shortening of traditional.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɹæd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

trad (not comparable)

1. (chiefly music) Traditional

   I've been listening to trad jazz lately.

   • 2002 October, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants, 2003/5th edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 187:

     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.

   • 2024 April 28, Gaby Del Valle, “The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population”, in POLITICO‎^[1]:

     Ultimately, this is what unites the Collinses with the more “trad” wings of the natalist movement, from the nativists to the Christian nationalists: pushing back on social and cultural changes they see as imposed on them by outside forces.

Noun

trad (countable and uncountable, plural trads)

1. (climbing) Traditional climbing.
2. (music) Irish traditional music
   • 2017, Lonely Planet Ireland's Best Trips‎^[2]:

     Miltown Malbay hosts the annual Willie Clancy Irish Music Festival, one of Ireland's great trad music events.

   • 2010, Fodor's Ireland 2010‎^[3]:

     Galway is the heart of Trad— the city and its environs have nurtured some of the most durable names in Irish music.

3. (informal, Catholicism) A traditionalist.
   • 2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind‎^[4]:

     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. (informal) Anything traditional, such as a school or a model of car.

Derived terms

• non-trad
• trad bolted
• tradcath
• trad climber
• traddy
• trad jazz
• tradlarp
• tradlarper
• trad pub
• trad-pub
• tradthot
• tradwife

Anagrams

• Art.D., -tard, DTRA, ADRT, Dart, 'tard, DArT, DART, dart, drat, tar'd, tard

Cornish

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [traːd]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [træːd]

Noun

trad m (plural tradys)

1. way, trade

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 183

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑt

Verb

trad

1. singular past indicative of treden

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Etymology

From Middle English tradde, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trad/

Verb

trad

1. to tread
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14:

     az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.

     for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114