Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

traditional right

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.81 in modern English

Syllables: tra-di-tion-al right
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A subsistence privilege or right, which is owned legally or by custom by an indigenous community or village.

noun

A right that is established by custom or tradition, as opposed to one established by law or a sense of social justice.

Example Sentences

"Having paved the way for viewing the state provision of welfare in terms of providing for people's basic needs, Raymond Plant still faced one difficult opponent: Maurice Cranston, who maintained that there is a crucial difference of nature between traditional rights and social ones."

Inflected Forms

traditional rights (plural)

Questions

What does traditional right mean?: A subsistence privilege or right, which is owned legally or by custom by an indigenous community or village.

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