tradition

Meanings

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.
2. A commonly held system.
3. An established or distinctive style or method
4. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
5. The entirety of a text's transmission; all the versions of a work.

1. To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

Etymology

From Middle English tradicioun, from Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādō. Doublet of treason.