tradition
/tɹəˈdɪʃ.ən/ noun A2- 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.
- A commonly held system. · They followed the tradition of lighting candles for special occasions.
- An established or distinctive style or method · Following tradition, the victorious athlete runs a lap around the track.
- The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
- The entirety of a text's transmission; all the versions of a work.
Plural traditions
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I shall be expecting you, and if you fail to come, I shall think—for how do I know to the contrary?—that this house, which has remained uninhabited for twenty years, must have some gloomy tradition or dreadful legend connected with it.”
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.
It is a fun and happy winter tradition.
It combined different musical traditions from many cultures around the world.
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