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| Main Entry: | tradition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | established practice |
| Synonyms: | attitude, belief, birthright, conclusion, convention, culture, custom, customs, ethics, fable, folklore, form, habit, heritage, idea, inheritance, institution, law, legend, lore, mores, myth, mythology, opinion, practice, praxis, ritual, unwritten law, usage, wisdom, ethic, mythos |
| Main Entry: | background |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experience or circumstances |
| Synonyms: | actions, atmosphere, attainment, aura, backdrop, breeding, capacity, credentials, cultivation, culture, education, environment, framework, history, practice, preparation, qualification, seasoning, tradition, training, upbringing, accomplishments, acquirement, deeds, grounding, rearing |
| Antonyms: | foreground |
| Main Entry: | doctrine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opinion; principle |
| Synonyms: | article, article of faith, attitude, axiom, basic, belief, canon, concept, convention, conviction, creed, declaration, dogma, fundamental, gospel, indoctrination, instruction, position, precept, pronouncement, propaganda, proposition, regulation, rule, statement, teaching, tenet, tradition, credenda, implantation, inculcation, universal law, unwritten rule |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, skepticism, heterodoxy, unbelief |
| Main Entry: | folklore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tales from the past |
| Synonyms: | ballad, custom, fable, legend, myth, mythology, superstition, tradition, wisdom, folk story, mythos, oral literature |
| Main Entry: | heritage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's background, tradition |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, bequest, birthright, convention, culture, custom, endowment, estate, fashion, inheritance, legacy, lot, patrimony, portion, right, share, tradition, dowry, heirship, heritance |
| Main Entry: | legacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inheritance, heritage |
| Synonyms: | bequest, birthright, devise, endowment, estate, gift, heirloom, tradition, throwback |
| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
| Synonyms: | adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, mythology, saga, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition, letters, mythos, saw |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tradition, fairy story, folk ballad, mythos, tall story |
| Antonyms: | fact, truth, non-fiction |
| Main Entry: | mythology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | folklore |
| Synonyms: | belief, conviction, legend, lore, tradition, folk tales, mythicism, mythos, myths, stories |
| Antonyms: | actuality, history, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | usage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | habit, custom |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, control, convention, currency, form, formula, handling, management, matter of course, method, mode, operation, practice, praxis, procedure, regime, regulation, rote, routine, rule, running, tradition, treatment, trick, use, way, wont, habitude |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | folk tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story that is passed down |
| Synonyms: | legend, myth, tradition, folk history, folk story |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular belief |
| Synonyms: | allegory, fable, fallacy, folklore, legend, lore, moral, myth, parable, story, superstition, tale, tradition, yarn, false belief, false knowledge, superstitious belief |
| Main Entry: | orthodoxy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dogma |
| Synonyms: | belief, doctrine, faith, religion, tradition |
| Main Entry: | unwritten law |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law based on customs or traditions |
| Synonyms: | custom, tradition, law of the land, oral code |
| Main Entry: | ceremony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ritual; celebratory observation |
| Synonyms: | ceremonial, commemoration, custom, formality, function, liturgy, observance, ordinance, parade, rite, sacrament, service, show, solemnity, tradition |
| Main Entry: | formality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convention, custom |
| Synonyms: | ceremony, form, gesture, liturgy, procedure, red tape*, rite, ritual, rule, service, solemnity, stereotype, tradition, academism, convenance, conventionality, matter of form, officialism, rituality, rubric, solemnness |
| Antonyms: | informality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | institute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law; custom |
| Synonyms: | convention, decree, doctrine, dogma, edict, establishment, fixture, habit, maxim, ordinance, practice, precedent, precept, prescript, principle, regulation, rite, ritual, rule, statute, tenet, tradition, decretum |
| Main Entry: | legend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story of the past, often fictitious |
| Synonyms: | fable, fiction, folk tale, folklore, lore, myth, mythology, narrative, saga, tale, tradition, folk story, mythos |
| Main Entry: | practice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | routine, usual procedure |
| Synonyms: | convention, custom, fashion, form, habit, manner, method, mode, praxis, proceeding, process, rule, system, tradition, trick, usage, use, usefulness, utility, way, wont, convenance, habitude |
| Antonyms: | abstention, refrain |
| Main Entry: | house |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family, ancestry |
| Synonyms: | clan, dynasty, family tree, folk, folks, household, kin, kindred, line, lineage, race, stock, tradition, tribe, ménage |
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