Dictionary entry

Tradition

Pronunciation: /trəˈdɪʃ(ə)n/

Pronunciation

/trəˈdɪʃ(ə)n/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ဓလေ့

Definition

tradition /trǝ'dÇʃn/ n (က) [U] ဓေလ့။ အေလ့။ ထံုး။ ထံုးစံ။ အစဥ္အလာ။ By tradition, people play practical jokes on 1 April. ❍ We decided to break with (ie not observe) tradition and not send any cards this Christmas. (ခ) [C] ထံုး။ ထံုးစံ။ အ႐ိုး။ အစဥ္။ အစဥ္အလာ။ ႐ိုးရာ။ literary traditions ❍ It's a tradition to sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ on New Year's Eve. ❍ He sees himself as a Romantic poet in the tradition of Wordsworth and Coleridge. ❏ traditional /-ʃǝnl/ adj အစဥ္အလာ။ ႐ိုးရာ။ ထံုး။ ထံုးစံ။ country people in their traditional costumes (ie of a type worn for many centuries) ❍ It's traditional in America to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day. ❏ traditionalism /-ʃǝnǝlÇzǝm/ n [U] ႐ိုးရာ ဓေလ့ ေလးစား ကိုင္း႐ိႈင္းမႈ။ ❏ traditionalist /-ʃǝnǝlÇst/ n ႐ိုးရာ ဓေလ့ကိုင္း႐ိႈင္းသူ။ အစဥ္အလာသမား။ traditionalist attitudes. ❏ traditionally /-ʃǝnǝli/ adv အစဥ္အလာအားျဖင့္။ In England, turkey is traditionally eaten on Christmas Day.

Examples

  1. Native American culture and traditions
  2. Parents bring up their children in accordance with their own traditions.
  3. According to family tradition
  4. Mr Thomas was a teacher.
  5. [be steeped in tradition] : Their national sport is steeped in centuries of tradition.
  6. [break with tradition] : He broke with tradition and stood for a third term of office.
  7. My extended family has a tradition of having reunions every summer.