traditions
Handed-down cultural rituals
Traditions are customs, beliefs, or practices passed down through generations within a group, family, or culture.
They carry a sense of continuity with the past: holiday traditions, family traditions, the Western literary tradition.
Tradition can also refer to this process of transmission itself, or to conventional ways of doing things: bucking tradition, steeped in tradition.
Something done by tradition follows established custom rather than written rules.
Descent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- forebearsAncestral family members
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
bloodline · family tree · roots · clan · dynasty · descendants · kinship · pedigree
Formal event marking occasions
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- observanceKeeping of customs
initiation · worship · pilgrimage · ordination · ablution · consecration · chant · veneration
Repeated training sessions
- conventionsAccepted social practices
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- moresBinding social standards
observances · protocols · folklore · taboos · formalities · usages · propriety · codes
lineage
Descent from progenitors
ancestors · bloodline · family tree · roots · clan · dynasty · descendants · kinship · pedigree · inheritance
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
observance · initiation · worship · pilgrimage · ordination · ablution · consecration · chant · veneration · fasting
practices
Repeated training sessions
- conventionsAccepted social practices
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- normsExpected behavioral standards
mores · observances · protocols · folklore · taboos · formalities · usages · propriety · codes · superstitions
celebration
Festive event marking occasion
- festivalOrganized public celebration
- carnivalTraveling amusement attraction
- paradeCeremonial public procession
feast · pageant · fiesta · fair · jubilee · gala · fete · banquet · revelry · gathering
sacred
Worthy of reverence
faith · holy days · Sabbath · Ramadan · Passover · Easter · Christmas · Eid · Hanukkah · Vesak
- common knowledgegeneral knowledge, trivia, common sense, proverbs, sayings
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- social studiescivics, social studies, maps, economics, community
- cultural differenceslocal cuisine, dialect, slang, religious practices, holiday customs
- cultural elementsheritage, customs, ritual, religions, beliefs
traditionsinnovations
New methods or devices
novelties · futurism · avant-garde · fads · modernities
traditionsinventions
Original creations or devices
innovations · improvisations · spontaneity · departures · disruptions
traditionsnonconformity
Rejection of prevailing norms
individualism · iconoclasm · heterodoxy · rebellion · unorthodoxy
- family traditionCustom passed through generations
- traditional cultureEstablished customs of a people
- traditional gamesLong-established recreational activities
- traditional tattoosClassic bold-lined body art
- traditional skillsTime-honored practical abilities
- traditional marketsLocal vendor gathering places
tradition, traditional, traditionally, traditionalist, untraditional, traditionalism, nontraditional, traditionalists, untraditionally