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oral tradition
UK/ˈɔːrəl trəˈdɪʃən/US/ˈɔrəl trəˈdɪʃən/OR·al tra·DI·tion
stories, knowledge, or customs passed down by speaking rather than writing
Examples
“Many historians rely on oral tradition to reconstruct events where written records are scarce.”
“The region has a rich oral tradition of folktales.”
“Oral tradition plays a key role in maintaining linguistic diversity.”
Band 8 sentence
“Scholars emphasise that oral tradition can preserve social norms and memory in ways that written records do not capture.”
Collocations
- preserve oral tradition
- oral storytelling
- rich oral tradition
Word family
Common mistakes
by oral tradition→through oral tradition
oral test→oral tradition
Say it for a higher band
5oral history→6spoken tradition→7+oral tradition
Synonyms
folk tradition
Easily confused
verbal
“Much of the tribe's history survives in oral tradition rather than in written texts.”
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