tradition . ( Of the lat. )( traditio, - onis ). 1. f. transmission of news, literary compositions, doctrines, rites, customs, etc., made from generation to generation. 2. f. news from a former fact transmitted in this way. 3. f. doctrine, custom, etc., preserved in a village by transmission from parents to children. 4. f. literary elaboration, in prose or verse, an event transmitted by oral tradition . 5. (f). Der. Giving to someone of something. Tradition of a sold thing 6. f. Ecd. Set of texts, preserved or not, which over time have conveyed a certain work. The tradition of the book of good love is composed of few manuscripts