trad
- noun
- /træd/
- UK
- It's called the trad wife TikTok trend, and trad is short for traditional.
Examples
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That's fairly clear to me: if you line up 1,000 trad pub authors and 1,000 self-pub authors, I'd bet donkeys to donuts that you'd find a lot more monetary and authorial success in the traditional model.
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So Ballerina Farm is like this big content creator that's like really pursuing the trad wife content.
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A couple of rumors are going around the trad circuit.
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There are, however, some kinds of genre novels now considered out-of-date or unpopular that the trads won't consider, but we small presses will.
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Many people in our community prefer to follow the trad of holding a big family dinner on Sundays.
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She dressed in a trad style for the festival, wearing classic clothing that reflected her heritage.
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Participating in the annual harvest celebration is a cherished trad in our village that everyone looks forward to.
Synonyms
A custom or belief passed down in families and groups over time
A usual way of behaving in a society, often passed down from the past
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Etymology
Trad is an informal short form of tradition, which means 'custom' or 'the usual way of doing things'. So when people say a family has a 'trad', they mean a regular, traditional activity that is done the same way over time.