In many rural regions, farmers still employ traditional methods of irrigation that conserve water.
在许多农村地区，农民仍采用传统的灌溉方法来节约用水。
The passage first outlines the traditional method for dating archaeological sites using pottery styles, then explains how radiocarbon dating provides a more precise, independent check on those pottery-based estimates.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
A linguist studying an endangered language found that fluent speakers under the age of 40 could name only about half as many traditional plant species in the language as fluent speakers over 60, even though both groups had grown up in the same rural region.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
The passage first explains the traditional method of estimating a tree's age by counting its growth rings, then describes how isotope analysis of the same rings can reveal historical climate conditions during each year of the tree's growth.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “traditional”?
D — Existing in or as part of a tradition. “traditional” means existing in or as part of a tradition.
Which word means “existing in or as part of a tradition”?
C — traditional. “traditional” means existing in or as part of a tradition.
traditional — existing in or as part of a tradition. In Chinese: 传统的.
traditional is pronounced /trəˈdɪʃənl/.
In many rural regions, farmers still employ traditional methods of irrigation that conserve water. (在许多农村地区，农民仍采用传统的灌溉方法来节约用水。)
conventional, customary, established — all close in meaning to traditional (existing in or as part of a tradition).
modern, innovative — each the opposite of traditional (existing in or as part of a tradition).
Yes. traditional is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.