tradition

Meanings

1. 1
   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.

   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. 2
   noun

   A commonly held system.

   They followed the tradition of lighting candles for special occasions.

3. 3
   noun

   An established or distinctive style or method

   Following tradition, the victorious athlete runs a lap around the track.

4. 4
   noun

   The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   The entirety of a text's transmission; all the versions of a work.

   It is, for example, apparent, in light of further research and when considering more manuscripts, that the manuscript tradition of the Life of Kiros (a very widespread hagiographical text) is much more complex than he had thought (Marrassini 2004; see Krzyżanowska 2015).

6. 6
   verb

   To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

   The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

7. 7
   noun

   a specific practice of long standing

8. 8
   noun

   an inherited pattern of thought or action

Etymology

From Middle English tradicioun, from Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādō. Doublet of treason.