Antonyms for tradition

Grammar : Noun

Spell : truh-dish-uhn

Phonetic Transcription : trəˈdɪʃ ən

Definition of tradition

Origin : late 14c., from Old French tradicion (late 13c.), from Latin traditionem (nominative traditio) "delivery, surrender, a handing down," from traditus, past participle of tradere "deliver, hand over," from trans- "over" (see trans-) + dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). The word is a doublet of treason (q.v.). The notion in the modern sense of the word is of things "handed down" from generation to generation.

noun established practice

Example sentences :

Tradition vaits for years to ripen vine and make it perfect.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

But the reception they got departed from tradition and propriety.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

What science would say about it, I do not know; tradition was quite voluble.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

For him, tradition reigned, and law was ever laying out the way.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

One could even believe she had reigned a beauty, as the tradition of the house declared.
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

Tradition and popular belief associate them with the Druids.
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

I had said the famous line in which Favart had made her "effect" that was now a tradition.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Tradition says that it was a woman who first set foot in Boston.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Newbury had been brought up in a home steeped in high Anglican tradition.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

But what could have been the reasons for this their obstruction of the natural flow of tradition?
Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

Synonyms for tradition

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