English edit

Etymology edit

Shortening of traditional.

Adjective edit

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.

Noun edit

trad (countable and uncountable, plural trads)

  1. (climbing) traditional climbing.
  2. (music) Irish traditional music
  3. (informal, Catholicism) A traditionalist.
  4. (informal) Anything traditional, such as a school or a model of car.

Derived terms edit

Anagrams edit

Cornish edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

trad m (plural tradys)

  1. way, trade

References edit

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

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑt

Verb edit

trad

  1. singular past indicative of treden

Yola edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

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 edit

  • 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