Noun

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.

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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Sat Aug 14 16:15:18 2010

Traditions serve to preserve a wide range of culturally significant ideas, specific practices and the various methods used by distinct cultures. The word tradition comes from the Latin traditionem which is the accusative case of traditio which means "handing over, passing on".

From Wikipedia under the GNU Free Documentation License
Thu Sep 2 21:01:55 2010

What tradition is sometimes referred to as part of the unwritten Constitution?
Q. What tradition is sometimes referred to as part of the unwritten Constitution? This is a question on the study guide for a quiz next week for my Current World Issues class.
Asked by Adam - Sat Sep 19 21:02:40 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Could you be talking about the Implied Powers of Congress? If so, then you might want to check out this page:
Answered by Mary - Sat Sep 19 21:14:26 2009

How did the Christmas tree tradition start?
Q. This just came to me. I'm thinking about the whole Bethlehem scene, and curious to why we celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree. So my question is where, how, when, why did the Christmas tree tradition start.
Asked by christy - Wed Dec 24 11:08:27 2008 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The tradition of the Christmas Tree started in Europe and is first recorded in the 16th century, well into the Christian era. There is no evidence at all of any connection to paganism. The first Christmas trees were put up on Christmas Eve and were decorated with fruit and nuts (now replaced by glass baubles and candy). Christmas Eve used to be counted as the Feast of Adam and Eve. The connection is obvious - the Christmas tree represents the tree in the Garden of Eden. The birth of Christ, the second Adam, transforms the tree from a symbol of our fall to a symbol of our redemption
Answered by greenshootuk - Wed Dec 24 15:09:16 2008

what started the tradition of giving diamond rings for wedding engagements?
Q. I am just wondering where the tradition of people giving diamond rings came from. Maybe what started it, and where it originated.
Asked by Wafflepeep - Mon Aug 10 22:16:27 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Well Some girl bought a ring for her husband because in turns forever and thats how much she loved him forever. I don't remember the date but i remember the story
Answered by Jenifer <3 - Mon Aug 10 22:21:54 2009

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  • All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
  • Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
  • ...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.
    • William Graham Sumner
  • In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.
    • Joseph Jastrow
  • Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
  • Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
  • Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
  • The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.