traditionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 tradicioun, from Old French tradicion, from Latin trāditiō, from the verb trādō. Doublet of treason.

発音

• enPR: trə-dishʹ(ə)n, IPA: /tɹəˈdɪʃn̩/
• (Indic) IPA: /ʈrɛˈɖɪʃən/
• 韻: -ɪʃən

名詞

tradition (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
   • 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.

   • 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!‎:

     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.

   • 2024 December 19, Amy Gunia, “Young Uzbeks are finding new markets for traditional handicrafts online”, in CNN Business‎:

     The tradition continues today. Twenty-four-year-old Aziza Tojiyeva, who lives in a small village about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, learned how to embroider from her mother, Mukhabbat Kuchkarova, who learned from her own grandmother.

2. A commonly held system. (Can we add an example for this sense? )

   They followed the tradition of lighting candles for special occasions.

3. An established or distinctive style or method:
   • Following tradition, the victorious athlete runs a lap around the track.
4. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     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

動詞

tradition (third-person singular simple present traditions, present participle traditioning, simple past and past participle traditioned)

1. (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

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

Further reading

• “tradition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tradition”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• "tradition" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 318.