usage
a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice: the usages of the last 50 years.
the customary manner in which a language or a form of a language is spoken or written: English usage; a grammar based on usage rather than on arbitrary notions of correctness.
Origin of usage
1confusables note For usage
Other words for usage
Other words from usage
- non·us·age, noun
Words that may be confused with usage
- use, usage (see usage note at the current entry)
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How to use usage in a sentence
Hence, Chaucer has mixed the two usages in a very remarkable way, and alternates them suddenly.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerHe pushed his conformity to what he considered the usages of the Primitive Church to the verge of eccentricity.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. OvertonNeither Caesar nor Tacitus gives us any idea of the habits or usages of the people who lived north of the Belgae.
Landholding In England | Joseph FisherI will here mention some other things in respect to their customs and usages, as they now occur to me.
Similar usages may be traced through the slow advances of culture to the present day.
Comparative Religion | J. Estlin Carpenter
British Dictionary definitions for usage
/ (ˈjuːsɪdʒ, -zɪdʒ) /
the act or a manner of using; use; employment
constant use, custom, or habit
something permitted or established by custom or practice
what is actually said in a language, esp as contrasted with what is prescribed
Origin of usage
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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