# tradition
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* enPR: trə-dishʹ(ə)n, IPA: /tɹəˈdɪʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪʃən

### Noun

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!‎: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.

#### Synonyms

* (a commonly held system): doctrine

#### Derived terms

* oral tradition
* traditional
* traditionally
* traditionalism
* traditionarily
* traditionary

#### Translations
### Verb

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, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

#### Further reading

* “tradition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tradition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* "tradition" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 318.

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tradiˈsjoːn/, [tˢʁɑd̥iˈɕonˀ]

### Noun

tradition c (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)
* tradition

#### Related terms

* traditionel

### Further reading

* “tradition” in Den Danske Ordbog
* tradition on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## Finnish
### Noun

tradition
* genitive singular of traditio

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French tradition, from Old French, borrowed from Latin trāditiōnem, from the verb trādere. Compare trahison.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁa.di.sjɔ̃/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophone: traditions
* Hyphenation: tra‧di‧tion

### Noun

tradition f (plural traditions)
* tradition
* a type of baguette or French stick

#### Synonyms

* coutume

#### Derived terms

* traditionnel

#### Related terms

* traditionalisme
* traditionaliste

### Further reading

* “tradition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle French
### Alternative forms

* tradicion

### Etymology

From Old French tradicion (“delivery”), a borrowing from Latin.

### Noun

tradition f (plural traditions)
* delivery
* treason
* fable; oral narrative
* custom
* tradition

#### Descendants

* French: tradition

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (tradicion)
* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (tradition, supplement)

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tradɪˈɧuːn/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tradition c
* (uncountable, countable) tradition

#### Related terms

* tradera
* traditionell

### References

* tradition in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* tradition in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* tradition in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)