tradition
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See also: Tradition
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādere.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?)
- The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
- Blackstone
- A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
- Blackstone
Derived terms[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- (a commonly held system): doctrine
Translations[edit]
a part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation
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Verb[edit]
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.
- Fuller
- The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
- Fuller
Further reading[edit]
- tradition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- tradition in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Danish[edit]
Noun[edit]
tradition c (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of tradition
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tradition | traditionen | traditioner | traditionerne |
| genitive | traditions | traditionens | traditioners | traditionernes |
Further reading[edit]
tradition on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Finnish[edit]
Noun[edit]
tradition
- 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/
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Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: traditions
- Hyphenation: tra‧di‧tion
Noun[edit]
tradition f (plural traditions)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tradition” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old French tradicion (“delivery”), a borrowing from Latin.
Noun[edit]
tradition f (plural traditions)
Descendants[edit]
- French: tradition
References[edit]
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tradicion)
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tradition, supplement)
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
tradition c
Declension[edit]
| Declension of tradition | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | tradition | traditionen | traditioner | traditionerna |
| Genitive | traditions | traditionens | traditioners | traditionernas |
Related terms[edit]
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