holiday traditions
Festive family practices
Holiday traditions are customs and rituals associated with recurring celebrations—decorating trees at Christmas, lighting candles for Hanukkah, gathering for Thanksgiving dinner.
The phrase emphasizes practices passed down through families or cultures: Our holiday traditions include matching pajamas on Christmas Eve.
Traditions may be ancient or invented last year; calling something a tradition lends it weight and continuity.
- candle lightingIgniting wax wicks
- community feastsCollective meals for groups
- festivalsOrganized communal celebrations
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- egg huntsSearches for concealed treats
traditional attire · folk dances · prayer services · parades · pilgrimage · processions · bonfires · fireworks displays · New Year's Eve · family reunions · storytelling · breaking bread · family recipes · seasonal songs · pumpkin carving · trick or treat · historical reenactments · holy symbols
- family traditionsfamily traditions, family dinner, family reunions, bedtime story, family reunion
- social obligationscourtesy, politeness, greeting, obligation, thank you
- faith familiesfamily devotions, family prayer, family worship, family Bible, family altar
- Jewish continuityJewish identity, Jewish community, Jewish values, family traditions, Torah study
- culturemusic taste, beliefs, food preferences, custom, festivals
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent