tradition

From Middle English tradicioun, from Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādō. Doublet of treason.

• enPR: trə-dishʹ(ə)n, IPA^(key): /tɹəˈdɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

tradition (countable and uncountable, plural traditions)

1. 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.
   • 1920, T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, in The Sacred Wood:

     Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged.

   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!‎:

     Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.

   • 1850, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree:

     After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death.

2. A commonly held system. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. An established or distinctive style or method:
   • Following tradition, the victorious athlete runs a lap around the track.
4. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     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.

• (a commonly held system): doctrine

• oral tradition
• traditional
• traditionally
• traditionalism
• traditionarily
• traditionary

tradition (third-person singular simple present traditions, present participle traditioning, simple past and past participle traditioned)

1. (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:

     The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

• “tradition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “tradition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• "tradition" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 318.

• IPA^(key): /tradiˈsjoːn/, [tˢʁɑd̥iˈɕonˀ]

tradition c (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)

1. tradition

• traditionel

• “tradition” in Den Danske Ordbog
• tradition on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

tradition

1. genitive singular of traditio

Inherited from Middle French tradition, from Old French, borrowed from Latin trāditiōnem, from the verb trādere. Compare trahison.

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.di.sjɔ̃/

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• Homophone: traditions
• Hyphenation: tra‧di‧tion

tradition f (plural traditions)

1. tradition
2. a type of baguette or French stick

• coutume

• traditionnel

• traditionalisme
• traditionaliste

• “tradition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tradicion

From Old French tradicion (“delivery”), a borrowing from Latin.

tradition f (plural traditions)

1. delivery
2. treason
3. fable; oral narrative
4. custom
5. tradition

• French: tradition

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tradicion)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tradition, supplement)

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tradition c

1. (uncountable, countable) tradition

• tradera
• traditionell

• tradition in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tradition in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tradition in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)