tradition – English noun declension

English noun forms of tradition

Noun: tradition
Singulartradition
Pluraltraditions

Sample Sentences

  • After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death. [1850, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree:]
  • 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. [1920, T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, in The Sacred Wood:]
  • 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. [1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!:]
  • The tradition continues today. Twenty-four-year-old Aziza Tojiyeva, who lives in a small village about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, learned how to embroider from her mother, Mukhabbat Kuchkarova, who learned from her own grandmother. [2024 December 19, Amy Gunia, “Young Uzbeks are finding new markets for traditional handicrafts online”, in CNN Business:]
  • They followed the tradition of lighting candles for special occasions.
  • Following tradition, the victorious athlete runs a lap around the track.
  • 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. [1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:]
  • It is, for example, apparent, in light of further research and when considering more manuscripts, that the manuscript tradition of the Life of Kiros (a very widespread hagiographical text) is much more complex than he had thought (Marrassini 2004; see Krzyżanowska 2015). [2020, Alessandro Bausi, “7.5 Philological practices: Ethiopic”, in Philipp Roelli, editor, Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches, De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 490:]

Etymology

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

Verbs referencing "tradition"

Finnish Nouns traditio, Irish Nouns traidisiún.