trad

Shortening of traditional.

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.

trad (countable and uncountable, plural trads)

1. (climbing) traditional climbing.
2. (music) Irish traditional music
   • 2017, Lonely Planet Ireland's Best Trips,

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

   • 2010, 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) (in Cornish), 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.

• IPA^(key): /tɾiːd/

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.

• 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