Noun

(en noun)

A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.

A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

, volume=189, issue=10, page=20, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= This is the cutest article , passage= I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.}}

Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

Noun

(en noun)

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.

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* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=2 citation , passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}

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A commonly held system. (rfex)

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

* Blackstone

A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.