{
    "term": "traditional",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "being part of the beliefs, customs or way of life of a particular group of people, that have not changed for a long time",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "traditional dress/music/art/culture/dance"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**It's traditional** in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "traditional values/practices/beliefs"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Acupuncture has long been a part of traditional Chinese medicine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Janet makes cheese by traditional methods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Cinema poses a threat to traditional art forms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Haggis is a traditional Scottish dish."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the buildings are in the traditional style."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The band plays traditional Celtic music."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They watched the Emperor perform the traditional ceremonies."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "following older methods and ideas rather than modern or different ones",
            "labels": "(sometimes disapproving)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **traditional method/way** of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "traditional methods of teaching"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a traditional approach/view"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their marriage is very traditional."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the traditional female role of homemaker"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was raised in a traditional patriarchal family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Candidates may use traditional book format dictionaries or electronic ones."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm a very traditional guy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had a very traditional ambition: to marry her childhood sweetheart."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The artists wanted to break with traditional conventions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Traditional attitudes to divorce were changing."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/trəˈdɪʃənl/",
                "audio": "tr/traditional/traditional__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/trəˈdɪʃənl/",
                "audio": "tr/traditional/traditional__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}