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# tradition

noun (a tradition, traditions; tradition — uncountable)

«tradition» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#m1)
2. A thing a family or group always does at a certain time (a birthday tradition). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#m2)
3. The general way things have been done for a long time (by tradition). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#x1)
- Carving pumpkins at Halloween is a tradition. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#x2)
- Every culture has its own traditions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#x3)
- By tradition, the youngest child opens the first present. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#x4)
- Lighting candles at Diwali is an old tradition. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#x5)
- Our school has a tradition of planting a tree each year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#x6)
- Grandma taught us traditions from her country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#x7)
- This is probably another case of adapting one tradition to another. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#x8)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tradition/#x1)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tradition/#x2)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tradition/#x3)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tradition» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tradition» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tradition.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «tradition» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tradition/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tradition» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tradition.html) on Mova free.