tradition
See also: Tradition
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English tradicioun, from Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādō. Doublet of treason.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
SynonymsEdit
- (a commonly held system): doctrine
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
a part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation
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VerbEdit
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, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.
Further readingEdit
- “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.
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tradition c (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)
InflectionEdit
Declension of tradition
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tradition | traditionen | traditioner | traditionerne |
| genitive | traditions | traditionens | traditioners | traditionernes |
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tradition” in Den Danske Ordbog
tradition on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
FinnishEdit
NounEdit
tradition
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Middle French tradition, from Old French, borrowed from Latin trāditiōnem, from the verb trādere. Compare trahison.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /tʁa.di.sjɔ̃/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: traditions
- Hyphenation: tra‧di‧tion
NounEdit
tradition f (plural traditions)
- tradition
- a type of baguette or French stick
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tradition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French tradicion (“delivery”), a borrowing from Latin.
NounEdit
tradition f (plural traditions)
DescendantsEdit
- French: tradition
ReferencesEdit
- 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)
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
tradition c
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of tradition | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | tradition | traditionen | traditioner | traditionerna |
| Genitive | traditions | traditionens | traditioners | traditionernas |