tradition

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: trə-dishʹ(ə)n, IPA(key): /tɹəˈdɪʃən/, /tɹəˈdɪʃn̩/
  • Audio (US)
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  • Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun[edit]

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!‎[1]:
      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. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
    • Blackstone
      A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.

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Verb[edit]

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

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Danish[edit]

Noun[edit]

tradition c (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)

  1. tradition

Inflection[edit]

Declension of tradition
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tradition traditionen traditioner traditionerne
genitive traditions traditionens traditioners traditionernes

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Finnish[edit]

Noun[edit]

tradition

  1. Genitive singular form of traditio.

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Old French; Borrowed from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādere. Compare trahison.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /tʁa.di.sjɔ̃/
  • Audio (France, Paris)
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  • Homophone: traditions
  • Hyphenation: tra‧di‧tion

Noun[edit]

tradition f (plural traditions)

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

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Middle French[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

tradition f (plural traditions)

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

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Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

tradition c

  1. tradition

Declension[edit]

Declension of tradition 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tradition traditionen traditioner traditionerna
Genitive traditions traditionens traditioners traditionernas

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