All 3 Uses of
tradition
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- His drawing-room, under the regenerating influence of a young wife and a daughter by his first marriage, scarcely eighteen, was still one of the well-regulated Paris salons where the worship of traditional customs and the observance of rigid etiquette were carefully maintained.†
Chpt 47-48traditional = relating to practice or belief that is long-established or was previously long-established OR relating to stories passed down through generations
- —that this house, which his remained uninhabited for twenty years, must have some gloomy tradition or dreadful legend connected with it.†
Chpt 59-60 *
- "Are there any stories connected with this prison besides the one relating to the poisoning of Mirabeau?" asked the count; "are there any traditions respecting these dismal abodes,—in which it is difficult to believe men can ever have imprisoned their fellow-creatures?"†
Chpt 113-114traditions = long-established or previously long-established practices or beliefs
Definition:
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
and/or:
one or more practices, beliefs, or stories passed down through generations within a specific culture or group