Found 3 items, similar to tradition.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: tradition adat, tradisi
English → English (WordNet) Definition: tradition tradition n 1: an inherited pattern of thought or action 2: a specific practice of long standing [syn: custom]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Tradition Tradition \Tra*di"tion\, v. t. To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] Tradition \Tra*di"tion\, n. [OE. tradicioun, L. traditio, from tradere to give up, transmit. See Treason, Traitor.] 1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. “A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.” --Blackstone. [1913 Webster] 2. The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed. [1913 Webster] Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect? --Shak. [1913 Webster] Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pr['e]. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 4. (Theol.) (a) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai. [1913 Webster] Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered. --Mark vii. 13. [1913 Webster] (b) That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing. [1913 Webster] Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. --2 Thess. ii. 15. [1913 Webster] Tradition Sunday (Eccl.), Palm Sunday; -- so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter. [1913 Webster]