Definitions

tradition

[truh-dish-uhn] / trəˈdɪʃ ən /

NOUN

established practice

Synonyms

STRONGEST

belief culture custom ethic folklore form habit heritage idea institution law legend lore myth mythology orthodoxy practice ritual wisdom

STRONG

birthright convention customs ethics fable inheritance mores praxis usage

WEAK

mythos unwritten law

Antonyms

STRONGEST

change heterodoxy innovation innovativeness nonconformism unconformity unorthodoxy

STRONG

apostasy bohemianism iconoclasm modernism novelty originality progression progressiveness

WEAK

adaptation creativity departure deviance deviation digression dissent divergence freshness heresy imagination imaginativeness invention irreverence new idea newness skepticism transgressiveness variation

Example Sentences

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“Now, because we lost, tradition has been upheld and we’re just a bunch of outcasts. One shot in the final minute could have changed that.”

From The Wall Street Journal

They appeared alongside performers wearing enormous heads crafted to look like Italian opera composers Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini and Gioachino Rossini, in a surreal nod to the country’s carnival tradition.

From The Wall Street Journal

Years ago, Dad bought me one as a joke, and now it’s tradition.

From Literature

The people of Rin were proud of their tradition of courage.

From Literature

Yet as Meloni has sought to bring down the deficit, and Merz has broken with tradition to ramp up borrowing and investment, this old dynamic has changed.

From Barron's

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