Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues
01“custom passed down”9 letters
02“Custom kept over time”9 letters
03“Custom passed along”9 letters
04“Long-standing custom”9 letters
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