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Adjective handed-down has 1 sense
  1. handed-down, tralatitious - having been passed along from generation to generation; "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor"
    Antonyms: nontraditional, untraditional (indirect, via traditional)
Verb hand-down has 1 sense
  1. hand down - passed on, as by inheritance; "This ring was handed down through many generations"
    --1 is one way to pass on
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something to somebody
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