Usually means: Customs passed down through generations.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tradition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tradition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tradition: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tradition: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tradition, tradition: Wordnik
  6. tradition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tradition: Wiktionary
  8. tradition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tradition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tradition: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Tradition, tradition: Dictionary.com
  12. tradition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. tradition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. The Tradition, Tradition (Doc Watson album), Tradition (Michael Angelo Batio album), Tradition (Port St. Lucie), Tradition (band), Tradition (journal), Tradition (song), Tradition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Tradition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tradition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tradition: Rhymezone
  18. Tradition (f), tradition, tradition (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tradition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. tradition: Free Dictionary
  21. tradition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. tradition: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. tradition: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. tradition: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. tradition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tradition: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. tradition: Legal dictionary
  5. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tradition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tradition: Dictionary of Cancer Terms

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tradition: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tradition: Easton Bible
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Tradition: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tradition: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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.
▸ noun:  A commonly held system.
▸ noun:  An established or distinctive style or method:
▸ noun:  The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

Similar:
custom, heritage, traditionalism, folklore, ritual, traditionality, culture, ethos, philosophy, history, more...

Opposite:
innovation, change, novelty, modernity, revolution

Types:
religious, cultural, political, military, social, economic, educational, family, personal, more...

Phrases:
oral tradition, jewish tradition, great tradition, eastern tradition, analytic tradition, more...

Adjectives:
oral, long, christian, old, literary, american, religious, ancient, western, cultural, classical

Colors:
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Similar:
custom, heritage, traditionalism, folklore, ritual, traditionality, culture, ethos, philosophy, history, more...

Opposite:
innovation, change, novelty, modernity, revolution

Types:
religious, cultural, political, military, social, economic, educational, family, personal, more...

Phrases:
oral tradition, jewish tradition, great tradition, eastern tradition, analytic tradition, rationalist tradition, neoclassical tradition, pragmatist tradition, aleutian tradition, common law tradition, more...

Adjectives:
oral, long, christian, old, literary, american, religious, ancient, western, cultural, classical

Colors:
    red,     gold,     green,     blue,     white,     black,     burgundy,     maroon,     purple,     silver



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