the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another
an inherited pattern of thought or action, e.g. a religious practice or a social custom
a convention or set of conventions associated with or representative of an individual, group, or period
The title poem represents a complete break with nineteenth-century tradition — F R Leavis
cultural continuity in social attitudes and institutions
in Christianity, doctrine deriving from oral tradition rather than the Bible
in Judaism, laws regarded as having been given by God to Moses
in Islam, beliefs and customs not in the Koran, e.g. the words of Muhammad
traditionless adj
[Middle English tradicioun via French from Latin tradition-, traditio action of handing over, tradition, from tradere to hand over, deliver, betray, from trans- + dare to give]