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TRADITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A specific practice of long standing
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tradition" is a kind of...):
practice (knowledge of how something is usually done)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tradition"):
habit; wont (an established custom)
Hadith ((Islam) a tradition based on reports of the sayings and activities of Muhammad and his companions)
institution (a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society)
Derivation:
traditional (consisting of or derived from tradition)
traditional (pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An inherited pattern of thought or action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("tradition" is a kind of...):
cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
Derivation:
traditional (consisting of or derived from tradition)
traditional (pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines)
Context examples:
A social group characterized by a distinctive social and cultural tradition that is maintained from generation to generation.
(Ethnic Group, NCI Thesaurus)
A religious group that encompasses a diverse set of beliefs and traditions that originated in the Indian subcontinent.
(Hindu, NCI Thesaurus)
She is what we call in England a tomboy, with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of traditions.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The hypar origami form, with its sweeping opposing arcs and saddle shape, has long been popular with artists working in the paper-folding tradition.
(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)
Their subjects are, generally on friendship and benevolence, on order and economy; sometimes upon the visible operations of nature, or ancient traditions; upon the bounds and limits of virtue; upon the unerring rules of reason, or upon some determinations to be taken at the next great assembly: and often upon the various excellences of poetry.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A social group characterized by a distinctive social and cultural tradition maintained from generation to generation, a common history and origin and a sense of identification with the group; members of the group have distinctive features in their way of life, shared experiences and often a common genetic heritage; these features may be reflected in their experience of health and disease.
(CDISC SDTM Ethnic Group Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Mr. Jorkins was not by any means the awful creature one might have expected, but a large, mild, smooth-faced man of sixty, who took so much snuff that there was a tradition in the Commons that he lived principally on that stimulant, having little room in his system for any other article of diet.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His remaining behind and his French name were really the only two points which could suggest suspicion; but, as a matter of fact, I did not begin work until he had gone, and his people are of Huguenot extraction, but as English in sympathy and tradition as you and I are.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ethnicity - an arbitrary classification of the social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a complex of cultural, biological, geographical and other factors such as linguistic, dietary and religion traditions; ancestry, background, allegiance, or association; and physical characteristics traditionally associated with race.
(Ethnicity, NCI Thesaurus)
In this respect it is different from the general run of roads in the Carpathians, for it is an old tradition that they are not to be kept in too good order.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
