different between tradition vs modernization

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

English

Alternative forms

• modernisation (British spelling)

Etymology

From modernize +? -ation or French modernisation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?d?n??ze??n?/, /?m?d?na??ze??n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?d?n??ze??n?/, /?m?d?na??ze??n?/, [?m???-]
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: mod?ern?i?za?tion

Noun

modernization (countable and uncountable, plural modernizations)

1. The process of modernizing.

Related terms

• modernize
• modernizer

Derived terms

• antimodernization

Translations