tradition

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Synonyms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.4 External links 2 Finnish 2.1 Noun 3 French 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Derived terms

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[edit] Etymology

Latin traditio.

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tradition (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.

   • 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.

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• traditional
• traditionally
• traditionalism

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• (a commonly held system): doctrine

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[edit] External links

• tradition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• tradition in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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tradition

1. Genitive singular form of traditio.

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• IPA: /tʁa.di.sjɔ̃/, SAMPA: /tRa.di.sjO~/

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tradition f. (plural traditions)

1. Tradition.

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• traditionnel
• traditionnellement