trad

Shortening of traditional.

trad (not comparable)

1. (chiefly music) traditional

   I've been listening to trad jazz lately.

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

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

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

trad m (plural tradys)

1. way, trade

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

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• Rhymes: -ɑt

trad

1. singular past indicative of treden

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

trad

1. to tread
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 12:

     az avare ye trad dicke londe

     for before your foot pressed the soil,

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 114