tradition

tradition

tradition (plural traditions)

1. 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.

   • 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.

2. A commonly held system.

	tradizione
	Un specifico modo di fare che si usa da tanto tempo.
	A specific practice of long standing.

costume

uso

Altri significati:

A commonly held system.

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.

hand down (information)

Traduzione 'veloce'

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