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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ???t/

Noun

baguette (plural baguettes)

1. A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
2. A gem cut in such a shape.
3. A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
4. (architecture) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
5. (zoology) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
6. (ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.

   Synonym: frog

Synonyms

• (bread): freedom bread (US politics, humorous, rare), French bread (informal), French stick

Translations

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bacchetta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.??t/

Noun

baguette f (plural baguettes)

1. stick, rod, any long thin object
2. (food) baguette, French stick

3. chopstick

4. (music) drumstick; (conductor's) baton
5. wand

6. (firearms) gun-stick, rod for stuffing the gun with ammunition
7. (Louisiana, Cajun French) the barrel of a gun

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “baguette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Alternative forms

• baguete, baguet

Etymology

From French baguette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??et/, [ba???et?]

Noun

baguette f (plural baguettes)

1. baguette, French bread (a long, narrow, parbaked bread)

Usage notes

• In Spain, a baguette tends to refer only to a long, narrow, parbaked and poor quality baguette in supermarkets. While a barra de pan is the rest of baguettes and brewed in bakeries.

Further reading

• “baguette” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From French baguette.

Noun

baguette c

1. baguette (bread)

   Synonym: pain riche

Further reading

• baguette in Svensk ordbok.

English

Etymology

From Middle English tradicioun, from Old French tradicion, from Latin tr?diti?, from the verb tr?d?. Doublet of treason.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?-dish?(?)n, IPA^(key): /t???d???n/, /t???d??n?/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

tradition (countable and uncountable, plural traditions)

1. A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
2. A commonly held system. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

   • A deed takes effect only from this tradition or delivery; for, if the date be false or impossible, the delivery ascertains the time of it.

Synonyms

• (a commonly held system): doctrine

Derived terms

• traditional
• traditionally
• traditionalism
• traditionarily
• traditionary

Translations

Verb

tradition (third-person singular simple present traditions, present participle traditioning, simple past and past participle traditioned)

1. (obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

   • The following story is […] traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

Further reading

• tradition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tradition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "tradition" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 318.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tradi?sjo?n/, [t???d?i??on?]

Noun

tradition c (singular definite traditionen, plural indefinite traditioner)

1. tradition

Inflection

Related terms

• traditionel

Further reading

• “tradition” in Den Danske Ordbog
• tradition on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Finnish

Noun

tradition

1. Genitive singular form of traditio.

French

Etymology

From Middle French tradition, from Old French, borrowed from Latin tr?diti?, tr?diti?nem, from the verb tr?dere. Compare trahison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a.di.sj??/
• Homophone: traditions
• Hyphenation: tra?di?tion

Noun

tradition f (plural traditions)

1. tradition
2. A type of baguette or French stick

Synonyms

• coutume

Derived terms

• traditionnel

Related terms

• traditionalisme
• traditionaliste

Further reading

• “tradition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• tradicion

Etymology

From Old French tradicion (“delivery”), a borrowing from Latin.

Noun

tradition f (plural traditions)

1. delivery
2. treason
3. fable; oral narrative
4. custom
5. tradition

Descendants

• French: tradition

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tradicion)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tradition, supplement)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

tradition c

1. tradition

Declension

Related terms

• tradera
• traditionell