traditional practice
Time-honored way doing
Traditional practice refers to methods, customs, or activities passed down through generations within a community or culture.
The phrase often appears in discussions of indigenous knowledge, folk medicine, or religious observance: Traditional practices vary widely across regions.
It can carry positive connotations of cultural preservation or negative ones when practices conflict with modern values: Some traditional practices have been banned as harmful.
- customHabitual group practice
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- sacred ritualCeremonial act with religious significance
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestralOf one's forebears
folklore · oral history · ceremony · rite of passage · coming of age · ancient · handcraft · master craftsman · elder · village elder · wisdom · roots · sacred · oral · handed down · indigenous · artisan · tribe
traditional practiceinnovation
Creating something original
new approach · modernization · trendsetting · reform · fad
traditional practiceevidence-based practice
Methods backed by research
scientific method · empirical approach · best practice · clinical practice · experimental method
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