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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English tradicioun, from Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādō. Doublet of treason.
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.
- 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.
- A commonly held system. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- An established or distinctive style or method:
- Following tradition, the victorious athlete runs a lap around the track.
- The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- A deed takes effect only from this tradition or delivery; for, if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it.
Synonyms
[edit]- (a commonly held system): doctrine
Derived terms
[edit]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.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
Further reading
[edit]- “tradition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “tradition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- "tradition" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 318.
Danish
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[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 |
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tradition” in Den Danske Ordbog
tradition on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Finnish
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[edit]tradition
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French tradition, from Old French, borrowed from Latin trāditiōnem, from the verb trādere. Compare trahison.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tradition f (plural traditions)
- tradition
- a type of baguette or French stick
Synonyms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tradition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French tradicion (“delivery”), a borrowing from Latin.
Noun
[edit]tradition f (plural traditions)
Descendants
[edit]- French: tradition
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tradicion)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tradition, supplement)
Swedish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]tradition c
Declension
[edit]Declension of tradition
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