tradition

Everyday

1. A custom, belief or way of doing things that has been passed down from older people to younger people for a long time. tree →
2. A thing a family or group always does at a certain time (a birthday tradition). tree →
3. The general way things have been done for a long time (by tradition). tree →

In the lessons

In culture, history and religious education lessons, pupils learn about traditions of many cultures and festivals: Christmas trees, Diwali lights, Lunar New Year, Thanksgiving dinner, Matariki, pancakes before Lent. Family traditions give belonging. Respecting other people's traditions is good manners. Phrases: family tradition, keep a tradition alive, by tradition, break with tradition, traditional (adjective).

Examples

• It's a tradition in our family to have pancakes on Sunday mornings. tree →
• Carving pumpkins at Halloween is a tradition. tree →
• Every culture has its own traditions. tree →
• By tradition, the youngest child opens the first present. tree →
• Lighting candles at Diwali is an old tradition. tree →
• Our school has a tradition of planting a tree each year. tree →
• Grandma taught us traditions from her country. tree →
• This is probably another case of adapting one tradition to another. tree →

Note

Countable (a tradition, traditions) and uncountable (by tradition). Adjective: traditional (traditional food). A tradition can be old and national or new and small, like a family game night.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: In Judaism tradition means the teachings handed down from Moses through the generations; the Oral Torah and the way the text is read and pronounced were passed on this way. In the primary lessons: In culture, history and religious education lessons, pupils learn about traditions of many cultures and festivals: Christmas trees, Diwali lights, Lunar New Year, Thanksgiving dinner, Matariki, pancakes before Lent. Family traditions give belonging. Respecting other people's traditions is good manners. Phrases: family tradition, keep a tradition alive, by tradition, break with tradition, traditional (adjective).

Examples

• There exist alternative traditions where this term in the SY is vocalized instead as אַמּוֹת ammot 'cubits' or אֻמּוֹת ummot 'nations'. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• Although Resh is usually thought to belong to the letters which cannot normally receive a dagesh, this was apparently not the case for these traditions. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
• Nonetheless, English translators have usually shied away from the this-worldly symbolism of the ‘Holy Wind’, much preferring immaterial ‘Spirit’ either out of theological embarrassment or deference to tradition. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →

Note

Countable (a tradition, traditions) and uncountable (by tradition). Adjective: traditional (traditional food). A tradition can be old and national or new and small, like a family game night.