tradition

See also Tradition

English

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Etymology

From Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādere.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /trəˈdɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• traditional
• traditionally
• traditionalism

Synonyms

• (a commonly held system): doctrine

Translations

Translations

Albanian: traditë (sq) Arabic: تقليد (ar) (taqliid) m. Armenian: ավանդույթ (avanduyt') Asturian: tradición (ast) m. Basque: tradizio (eu) Bosnian: tradicija (bs) f. Catalan: tradició (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 傳統 (cmn), 传统 (cmn) (chuántǒng) Croatian: tradicija (hr) f. Czech: tradice (cs) f. Danish: tradition (da) c., overlevering (da) c. Dutch: traditie (nl) f. Esperanto: tradicio (eo) Estonian: traditsioon (et), tava (et), komme (et), pärimus (et) Finnish: perimätieto (fi), perinne (fi) French: tradition (fr) f. Georgian: ტრადიცია (ka) (traditsia) German: Tradition (de) f. Greek: παράδοση (el) (parádosi) f. Hebrew: מסורת (he) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: hagyomány (hu), tradíció (hu) Icelandic: hefð (is) Ido: tradiciono Italian: tradizione (it) f. Japanese: 伝統 (ja) (でんとう, dentō)

Korean: 전통 (ko) (jeontong) (傳統) Latin: cōnsuētūdō (la) f. Latvian: paraža (lv) f. Lithuanian: tradicija (lt) f. Luhya: butamaduni Macedonian: традиција (mk) (tradícija) f., предание (mk) (predánie) n. Maltese: tradizzjoni (mt) f. Mongolian: уламжлал (mn) (ulamjlal) Polish: tradycja (pl) f. Portuguese: tradição (pt) f. Romanian: tradiție (ro) f., datină (ro) f. Russian: традиция (ru) (tradícija) f. Scottish Gaelic: dualchas m., beul-aithris f., beul-oideas m., seachadas m. Serbian: Cyrillic: традиција (sr) f., предање (sr) n. Roman: tradicija f., predanje n. Spanish: tradición (es) f. Swahili: tamaduni (sw), itikadi (sw), utamaduni (sw), tabia (sw) Swedish: tradition (sv) c. Telugu: సంప్రదాయం (te) (sampradaayam) Thai: ประเพณี (bpràpâynee) Turkish: gelenek (tr), töre (tr) Welsh: traddodiad (cy) m. Yiddish: מסורה (yi) (mesoyre) f. Persian: please add this translation if you can

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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Danish

Noun

tradition c. (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)

1. tradition

Inflection

    Inflection of tradition

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	tradition	traditionen	traditioner	traditionerne
genitive	traditions	traditionens	traditioners	traditionernes

External links

• Tradition on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Finnish

Noun

tradition

1. Genitive singular form of traditio.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādere. Cf. trahison.

Pronunciation

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

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

Noun

tradition f. (plural traditions)

1. tradition

Synonyms

• coutume

Derived terms

• traditionnel

Related terms

• traditionalisme
• traditionaliste

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Noun

tradition c.

1. tradition

Declension

Declension of tradition

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tradition	traditionen	traditioner	traditionerna
genitive	traditions	traditionens	traditioners	traditionernas

Related terms

• tradera
• traditionell