Traditionally

//tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li// adv

adv ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a traditional manner.
  2. 2
    From the beginning.

    "The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained."

Adverb
  1. 1
    according to tradition; in a traditional manner wordnet

Example

More examples

"After all, different people have different ways of eating, according to the kinds of food which they have traditionally eaten."

Etymology

From traditional + -ly.

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