tradition
IPA: trʌdˈɪʃʌn
noun
- 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.
- A commonly held system.
- An established or distinctive style or method:
- The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
verb
- (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
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Examples of "tradition" in Sentences
- The old town has the traditional illumination.
- Tradition is the justification of their culture.
- At offices and schools the tradition is also kept.
- And for this, the tradition is the Ten (Decalogue).
- Within this tradition is an assumed "right to know".
- Is he bucking hoary old tradition by appearing with her
- The cult replicated the authentic traditions of Lavongai culture.
- The Visionary continues the tradition of the old Vision Magazine.
- Some of these traditions are highly specific and culturally circumscribed.
- The district maintains the tradition of the past in culture and education.
- The term tradition, like variation and selection, is taken in the broad sense.
- The custodians of culture and tradition in the area are the traditional rulers.
- The city was one of the most religious and culturally traditional areas in Iraq.
- I think one of the problems here is the misappropriation of the term 'tradition'.
- The word tradition comes from the Latin traditio meaning "an action of handing over."
- Whether you like it or not, this tradition is also widely celebrated on the Internet.
- In every show, particularly the Christmas show, we bring in what we call tradition bearers.
- This tradition, which only appears as a _tradition_ in one of the dynastic histories of the fifth century A.
- He elaborated on how the Indian culture enriched the Japanese culture and tradition and how it imbibed from it in return.
- From the divine breath and the dust of the earth - the joining of upper and lower worlds - comes the 'living soul,' what our tradition translates as the 'speaking soul.'