Antonyms for tradition


Grammar : Noun
Spell : truh-dish-uhn
Phonetic Transcription : trəˈdɪʃ ən


Definition of tradition

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French tradicion (late 13c.), from Latin traditionem (nominative traditio) "delivery, surrender, a handing down," from traditus, past participle of tradere "deliver, hand over," from trans- "over" (see trans-) + dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). The word is a doublet of treason (q.v.). The notion in the modern sense of the word is of things "handed down" from generation to generation.
  • noun established practice
Example sentences :
  • Tradition vaits for years to ripen vine and make it perfect.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • But the reception they got departed from tradition and propriety.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • What science would say about it, I do not know; tradition was quite voluble.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • For him, tradition reigned, and law was ever laying out the way.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • One could even believe she had reigned a beauty, as the tradition of the house declared.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Tradition and popular belief associate them with the Druids.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • I had said the famous line in which Favart had made her "effect" that was now a tradition.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • Tradition says that it was a woman who first set foot in Boston.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • Newbury had been brought up in a home steeped in high Anglican tradition.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • But what could have been the reasons for this their obstruction of the natural flow of tradition?
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

Synonyms for tradition

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