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Word entry · 9 letters

tradition

Best crossword clue

"custom passed down"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /tɹəˈdɪʃ.ən/Part of speech nounSorted adiinorttStarts with TEnds with N4 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a specific practice of long standing

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death.
  • 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.
  • Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.

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Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues

01custom passed down9 letters
02Custom kept over time9 letters
03Custom passed along9 letters
04Long-standing custom9 letters

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