EGAVE

tradition

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 53.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

  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.
  2. noun A commonly held system. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    They followed the tradition of lighting candles for special occasions.
  3. noun An established or distinctive style or method:
  4. noun The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
  5. noun The entirety of a text's transmission; all the versions of a work.
  6. verb To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

Similar words

custom culture folk classic folklore lore ritual rite history conventional

Often followed by

of and in that is has which was to

Word family

traditional traditionalist traditionally traditionless traditions

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