trad

Shortening of traditional.

trad (not comparable)

1. (chiefly music) traditional

   I've been listening to trad jazz lately.

   1. traditional: used in lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music whose real origin is lost in the mists of time.

trad (countable and uncountable, plural trads)

1. (climbing) traditional climbing.
2. (music) Irish traditional music
   • "Lonely Planet Ireland's Best Trips": https://books.google.com/books?id=N6x9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT251&dq=%22trad+music%22+irish+music&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I0qUVaWXLIjjsAWYyILQDg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAg

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

   • "Fodor's Ireland 2010": https://books.google.com/books?id=dhfTd0wKanIC&pg=PA443&dq=%22trad+music%22+irish+music&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I0qUVaWXLIjjsAWYyILQDg&ved=0CFAQ6AEwCQ

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

3. (informal) A traditionalist.
4. (informal) Anything traditional, such as a school or a model of car.

• trad bolted
• trad-pub

• 'tard, -tard, Art.D., DART, DTRA, Dart, dart, drat, tard

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trad

1. singular past indicative of treden