Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Tradition (-s, -'s)
tradition (-s, -'s), n. [OFr tradicion, delivery, surrender, handing down, instruction, doctrine.] (webplay: word).
- Custom; practice passed through generations; proper mode of behavior; correct way of being.
- Legend; fairy tale; story passed down through generations.
- Entity of long ago; something remembered only through legends; thing which no longer exists.
- Folk wisdom.
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