tradition

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English tradicioun, borrowed 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)

  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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Blackstone and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.

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Verb

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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Fuller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

Further reading

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tradiˈsjoːn/, [tˢʁɑd̥iˈɕonˀ]

Noun

tradition c (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)

  1. tradition

Inflection

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

Further reading

Finnish

Noun

tradition

  1. (deprecated template usage) 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

Noun

tradition f (plural traditions)

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

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Further reading

Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

tradition f (plural traditions)

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

Descendants

  • French: tradition

References

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

tradition c

  1. tradition

Declension

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

Related terms

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