tradition
Part of speech: noun
Knowledge transmitted without writing, from generation to generation.
Usage examples "tradition":
- This is what tradition says on both sides. - "Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)", Plutarch.
- But there is another tradition stranger still. - "A Life of St. John for the Young", George Ludington Weed.
- It is only by tradition that roots become empty. - "Lectures on The Science of Language", Max Müller.