tradition
tradition は英検3級・英検準2級・英検2級・TOEIC 600レベルの英単語で、「伝統、慣習」という意味があります。発音記号は /trəˈdɪʃən/ です。
意味一覧 (2件)
伝統
解説 Definition
過去から現在へと受け継がれてきた習慣や文化。社会、宗教、家族などで大切にされている古い慣例や方式です。
Tradition is a custom, belief, or way of doing something that has continued for a long time. It is often connected with families, cultures, festivals, or religions. The word is used for practices that are passed from one generation to another.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
このエントリの tradition は、日々の決まりごととしての「慣習」ではなく、文化・宗教・家族などで長く受け継がれてきた「伝統」を表します。traditional や traditionally と結びつけ、cultural tradition, ancient tradition, pass down a tradition の形で覚えると定着します。custom よりも、世代をまたいで守られてきた重みや歴史性が前面に出る点を意識してください。
Store this with traditional and traditionally as one word family. Tradition often appears with family, cultural, or local, so it helps to imagine something passed down over generations. Keep it separate from habit, which is personal, and custom, which is lighter.
例文
This family has a tradition of celebrating on New Year's Day.
この家族は元日を祝う伝統があります。
Japanese tea ceremony is an important tradition.
日本の茶道は重要な伝統です。
The tradition has been passed down for centuries.
その伝統は何世紀にもわたって受け継がれてきました。
慣習
(意味 2)解説 Definition
社会や組織の中で長く続いている決まったやり方や習わしを指します。年中行事、家庭内の決まり、学校や職場の慣例など、個人の癖ではなく集団で共有される行動に使います。古く格式ある「伝統」より、日常的な決まりごとの響きが強い語です。
Tradition means a way of doing things that has continued for a long time in a group, such as a family, school, workplace, or society. It is used for shared habits, rules, or events that people repeat over the years, not for one person's personal habit. Compared with a formal word like heritage, tradition often sounds more everyday and can describe common customs in daily life.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
tradition は traditional, traditionally と同じ語族ですが、ここでは「長く続く集団のやり方」と考えると覚えやすいです。family tradition, school tradition, holiday tradition のように、家族・学校・季節行事で毎回行うことによく使います。custom も近い語ですが、tradition は「昔から続いている」「受け継がれている」という時間の長さが強めです。既存の「伝統」より日常の決まりごとに寄せて覚えると区別できます。
Think of tradition as a group way of doing something that has been passed down for a long time. It belongs to the same word family as traditional and traditionally, but tradition is the noun for the shared custom itself. You often see it in phrases like family tradition, school tradition, and holiday tradition. It is close to custom, but tradition more strongly suggests something continued over many years.
例文
It is a family tradition to eat the same meal every New Year's Day.
毎年元日に同じ料理を食べるのは、わが家の慣習です。
The school has a tradition of planting flowers before the spring festival.
その学校には、春祭りの前に花を植える慣習があります。
Although the office is modern, one old tradition has remained unchanged.
その職場は現代的ですが、ひとつ古い慣習が変わらず残っています。
tradition の語源・成り立ち Etymology
tradition は古フランス語を経てラテン語 traditio にさかのぼり、trans-「向こうへ」+ dare「与える」から成ります。原義は「手から手へ渡すこと」で、習慣や教えが代々受け渡されるから『伝統』になるわけです。関連語に traitor、treason がある。
Tradition comes through Old French from Latin traditio, from tradere, meaning "to hand over" or "pass on." It is built from trans- meaning "across" and dare meaning "give." The original sense was something passed from hand to hand, which later became the idea of customs, beliefs, or teachings passed down through generations. Related words from the same Latin verb include traitor and treason, though their meanings changed in a different direction.
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