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# tradition

«tradition» in Mova's school dictionary: **A custom, belief or way of doing things that has been…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a tradition, traditions; tradition — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/#m3)

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

- [Hopak is a lively Ukrainian folk dance with big jumps and squat-kicks, linked to Cossack traditions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/14/)
- [In Japan there is a tradition of folding 1,000 paper cranes for a wish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/16/)
- [The Queen of Sheba visits him in the Bible; Arabic tradition calls her Bilqis, Kipling's Balkis.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/30/)
- [Families decide how to handle traditions like the tooth fairy or Father Christmas, so do not spoil them for younger children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/17/)
- [Classmates may celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Eid, Hanukkah or Lunar New Year, and every family's traditions deserve the same respect.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tradition» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tradition/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.