tradition
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tradition
- /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ən/
Rhymes with -ɪʃən
Where it comes from
From Middle English tradicioun, from Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādō. Doublet of treason.
noun traditions
- A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays. After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death.
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A commonly held system.
They followed the tradition of lighting candles for special occasions.
Similar: doctrine
- An established or distinctive style or method Following tradition, the victorious athlete runs a lap around the track.
- The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. A deed takes effect only from this tradition or delivery; for, if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it.
- The entirety of a text's transmission; all the versions of a work. It is, for example, apparent, in light of further research and when considering more manuscripts, that the manuscript tradition of the Life of Kiros (a very widespread hagiographical text) is much more complex than he had thought (Marrassini 2004; see Krzyżanowska 2015).
verb traditions · traditioning · traditioned
- To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: custom, culture, folk, classic, folklore, lore, ritual, rite, history, conventional, customary, story, norm, practice, imitation, habit
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noun a part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation
| Español | tradición |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 전통 jeontong |
| 日本語 | 伝統 dentō |
| 中文 | 傳統 /传统 chuántǒng |
| हिन्दी | परंपरा paramparā, रस्म rasm |
| Kiswahili | tamaduni, itikadi, utamaduni, tabia, desturi |
| Português | tradição |
| Français | tradition |
| Deutsch | Tradition, Überlieferung, Urüberlieferung |
| Italiano | tradizione |
| Ελληνικά | παράδοση parádosi |
| Română | tradiție, datină |
| Русский | тради́ция tradícija, преда́ние predánije |
| Tiếng Việt | sự truyền miệng, phong tục, truyền thống |
| العربية | تَقْلِيد taqlīd |
| עברית | מסורת \ מָסֹרֶת masóret |
Talk about this word "tradition." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tradition. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tradition. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tradition "tradition." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tradition.Cite this
@misc{tradition_2026,
title = {tradition},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tradition},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
