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based on customs usually handed down from a previous generation
- a traditional Passover meal at his grandparents' house
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- futuristic,
- high-tech
- (also hi-tech),
- hot,
- latest,
- mod,
- modernistic,
- newfangled,
- new-fashioned,
- red-hot,
- space-age,
- state-of-the-art,
- supermodern,
- ultramodern
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2
tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
- a family that is very traditional when it comes to institutions like marriage
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“Traditional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traditional. Accessed 22 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of traditional was in 1545
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