tradition - a specific practice of long standingpractice - knowledge of how something is usually done; "it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner" habit, wont - an established custom; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening" Hadith - (Islam) a tradition based on reports of the sayings and activities of Muhammad and his companions institution - a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution of slavery"; "he had become an institution in the theater" |