family tradition
Generational repeated practice
A family tradition is a custom or practice passed down through generations within a family—holiday rituals, recipes, annual gatherings, or ways of marking milestones.
The phrase emphasizes continuity and shared identity: It's a family tradition to open one gift on Christmas Eve.
Family traditions range from the meaningful to the trivial, sometimes persisting long after anyone remembers why they started.
- ChristmasWinter nativity celebration
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- customHabitual group practice
- birthdayAnnual date of origin
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
bedtime ritual · passing down · legacy · oral history · Diwali · anniversary · bedtime stories · ancestry · heirlooms · storytelling · holiday · old country · genealogy · tea ceremonies · Thanksgiving · holiday gathering · reunion · ceremony
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- family bondslove, parent-child bond, trust, sibling bond, loyalty
- social codessocial norms, social norm, unwritten rule, unspoken rule, unspoken rules
- Folkwayscustom, folk belief, folk remedy, folk medicine, folk song
- immigrant storiesimmigrant experience, immigration story, Ellis Island, green card, first generation
- red envelopesred envelope, red packet, hongbao, lucky money, cash gift
family traditioninnovation
Creating something original
fresh start · novelty · new beginning · clean slate · radical change
family traditioncorporate culture
Shared workplace values, norms
government mandate · cultural convention · mass culture · religious doctrine · personal quirk
family traditionrandom occurrence