tradition
See also: Tradition
English
Etymology
From Middle English tradicioun, from Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādō. Doublet of treason.
Pronunciation
- enPR: trə-dishʹ(ə)n, IPA(key): /tɹəˈdɪʃən/, /tɹəˈdɪʃn̩/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪʃən
Noun
tradition (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
- 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.
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- A commonly held system. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 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.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
- 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.
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Synonyms
- (a commonly held system): doctrine
Derived terms
- traditional
- traditionally
- traditionalism
- traditionarily
- traditionary
Translations
a part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation
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Verb
tradition (third-person singular simple present traditions, present participle traditioning, simple past and past participle traditioned)
- (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:
- The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
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Further reading
- tradition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- tradition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- "tradition" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 318.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tradiˈsjoːn/, [tˢʁɑd̥iˈɕonˀ]
Noun
tradition c (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)
- tradition
Inflection
Declension of tradition
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tradition | traditionen | traditioner | traditionerne |
| genitive | traditions | traditionens | traditioners | traditionernes |
Related terms
- traditionel
Further reading
- “tradition” in Den Danske Ordbog
tradition on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Finnish
Noun
tradition
- genitive singular of traditio
French
Etymology
From Middle French tradition, from Old French, borrowed from Latin trāditiō, trāditiōnem, from the verb trādere. Compare trahison.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁa.di.sjɔ̃/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: traditions
- Hyphenation: tra‧di‧tion
Noun
tradition f (plural traditions)
- tradition
- a type of baguette or French stick
Synonyms
- coutume
Derived terms
- traditionnel
Related terms
- traditionalisme
- traditionaliste
Further reading
- “tradition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Alternative forms
- tradicion
Etymology
From Old French tradicion (“delivery”), a borrowing from Latin.
Noun
tradition f (plural traditions)
- delivery
- treason
- fable; oral narrative
- custom
- tradition
Descendants
- French: tradition
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tradicion)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tradition, supplement)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
tradition c
- tradition
Declension
| Declension of tradition | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | tradition | traditionen | traditioner | traditionerna |
| Genitive | traditions | traditionens | traditioners | traditionernas |
Related terms
- tradera
- traditionell