0 a belief, principle, or way of acting that people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time, or all of these beliefs, etc. in a particular society or group: --
According to tradition, a headless ghost walks through the corridors of the house at night.
We decided to break with tradition (= not behave as usual) this year and go away for Christmas.
[ + that ] There's a tradition in our office that when it's somebody's birthday, they bring in a cake for all of us to share.
Switzerland has a long tradition of neutrality.
Fireworks have long been an American tradition on the Fourth of July.
1 a way of behaving or a belief that has been established for a long time, or the practice of following behavior and beliefs that have been so established: --
Instead, there may be important traditions of formal oratory and oral story telling, along with ritual and ceremony that have oral components.
The transmission of oral traditions depends on the social continuity of the group that finds meaning in telling those tales.
Finding discrepancies between oral traditions and other sources does not negate the value of oral traditions as historical evidence.
An oral tradition can and will adapt from one generation to the next, repeating its content in a form more readily accessible to the hearers.
It is within this tradition that oral history developed in the late 1960s.
Oral traditions claim that he himself took up the hoe to lead his riimaybe in the cultivation work.
The heuristics-and-biases tradition is most valuable as an answer to questions of whether, and how, we can improve decisions in the real world.
Ultimately, though, corpus-based empiricism must not lose touch with the theoretical linguistic tradition in the study of linguistic change.
