Heritage vs. Tradition — What's the Difference?

Property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance

A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of folklore, common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes (like lawyers' wigs or military officers' spurs), but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings.

A special or individual possession; an allotted portion

The passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication

Christians, or the ancient Israelites, seen as God's chosen people.

A mode of thought or behavior followed by a people continuously from generation to generation; a custom or usage

Property that is or can be inherited; an inheritance.

A set of such customs and usages viewed as a coherent body of precedents influencing the present

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A precept or a body of precepts that are not written in the sacred book of a religion, such as the Bible, but are considered holy or true.

The status acquired by a person through birth; a birthright

A style or method of an activity or practice, especially of artistic expression, that is recognized and sometimes imitated

A domesticated animal or a crop of a traditional breed, usually not widely produced for commercial purposes.

A piece of folklore

An inheritance; property that may be inherited.

A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.

A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.

A commonly held system. en

A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.

An established or distinctive style or method:

(attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.

The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.

(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.

The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition;

The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.

Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;

Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.

That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.

Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.

To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

An inherited pattern of thought or action

A specific practice of long standing