traditionとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: trə-dishʹ(ə)n, IPA^(key): /tɹəˈdɪʃən/, /tɹəˈdɪʃn̩/
• 韻: -ɪʃən

名詞

tradition (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 traditions)

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.
   • 1920, T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, in The Sacred Wood:

     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.

   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1850, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree:

     After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death.

2. A commonly held system. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
   • 1765, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:

     A deed takes effect only from this tradition or delivery; for, if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it.

同意語

• (a commonly held system): doctrine

派生語

• traditional
• traditionally
• traditionalism
• traditionarily
• traditionary

動詞

tradition (三人称単数 現在形 traditions, 現在分詞 traditioning, 過去形および過去分詞形 traditioned)

1. (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:

     The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

Further reading

• tradition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tradition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "tradition" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 318.