tralatitious
/ˌtræləˈtɪʃəs/
adjective
- Passed down or handed over from one person or generation to another; traditional or customary.
- The tralatitious customs of the village have been preserved for centuries.
- Many tralatitious beliefs about health have been replaced by modern medicine.
- The family's tralatitious recipes are still used every holiday.
- Transferred in meaning from a literal to a figurative sense; metaphorical.
- The teacher explained how the word 'heart' can have a tralatitious meaning in love songs.
- The phrase 'break the ice' is a tralatitious expression that doesn't refer to actual ice.
- In poetry, tralatitious language often creates vivid imagery.
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