tradition

Meanings

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

• To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

Related

Similar words

• doctrine

Origin

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