All 4 Uses of
tradition
in
Dubliners
- He carried on the tradition of his Napoleon, the great Blackwhite, whose memory he evoked at times by legend and mimicry.†
Chpt 14 *
- Gabriel went on more boldly: "I feel more strongly with every recurring year that our country has no tradition which does it so much honour and which it should guard so jealously as that of its hospitality.†
Chpt 15
- It is a tradition that is unique as far as my experience goes (and I have visited not a few places abroad) among the modern nations.†
Chpt 15
- As long as this one roof shelters the good ladies aforesaid—and I wish from my heart it may do so for many and many a long year to come—the tradition of genuine warm-hearted courteous Irish hospitality, which our forefathers have handed down to us and which we in turn must hand down to our descendants, is still alive among us.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(tradition) a long-established or previously long-established practice or belief
and/or:
one or more practices, beliefs, or stories passed down through generations within a specific culture or group