Tradition Trəˈdɪʃn Family Region Long British Things Politician

• religious/cultural, etc. traditions
• this region is steeped in tradition.
• the company has a long tradition of fine design.
• the british are said to love tradition (= to want to do things in the way they have always been done).

tradition

1. a belief, custom or way of doing something that has existed for a long time among a particular group of people; a set of these beliefs or customs
• religious/cultural, etc. traditions
• This region is steeped in tradition.
• The company has a long tradition of fine design.
• The British are said to love tradition (= to want to do things in the way they have always been done).
• They broke with tradition (= did things differently) and got married quietly.
• By tradition, children play tricks on 1 April.
• There's a tradition in our family that we have a party on New Year's Eve.
• He's a politician in the tradition of (= similar in style to) Kennedy.

Extra Examples

• According to tradition, a tree grew on this spot.
• By tradition, nobody interrupts an MP’s maiden speech.
• By tradition, ships are often referred to as ‘she’ in English.
• Following in the Hitchcock tradition, he always appears in the films he directs.
• He broke with the family tradition and did not go down the mines.
• He made it clear he was not going to be bound by tradition.
• He’s a politician in the tradition of Kennedy.
• He’s a politician in the tradition of= similar in style to Kennedy.
• His education gave him a lasting respect for tradition.
• I acquired lasting respect for tradition and veneration for the past.
• In a departure from tradition, the bride wore a red dress.
• In time-honoured tradition, a bottle of champagne was smashed on the ship.
• It became an annual tradition for me to ice the cake.
• Japan’s rich cultural tradition and history
• Old habits and traditions die hard.
• The building was constructed in the best traditions of church architecture.
• The girl had challenged the traditions of her patriarchal tribe.
• The locals get together every year to keep this age-old tradition alive.
• The tradition dates back to the 16th century.
• They have inherited a rich tradition of music and dance.
• This region has a great musical tradition.
• an oral tradition handed down from generation to generation
• people of all faith traditions
• Brittany has a lively and very distinctive sense of tradition.
• Germany has a tradition of good quality newspapers.
• He decided not to follow the family tradition of joining the navy.
• He is in the great tradition of British travel writers.
• The bride’s parents are by tradition expected to pay for the wedding.
• There is a tradition in our family that one of our ancestors was a Cherokee Indian.
• This year there will be a break with tradition.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French tradicion, or from Latin traditio(n-), from tradere ‘deliver, betray’, from trans- ‘across’ + dare ‘give’.