Custom
['kʌstəm]
Definition
(noun.) accepted or habitual practice.
(noun.) habitual patronage; 'I have given this tailor my custom for many years'.
(noun.) a specific practice of long standing.
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Definition
(n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
(n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
(n.) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
(n.) Familiar aquaintance; familiarity.
(v. t.) To make familiar; to accustom.
(v. t.) To supply with customers.
(v. i.) To have a custom.
(n.) The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
(n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
(v. t.) To pay the customs of.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Habit (of a majority), usage, fashion, practice, rule.[2]. Form, formality, observance.[3]. Patronage.[4]. Tax, impost, duty, tribute, toll.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Manner, habit, use, usage, fashion, practice, prescription
ANT:Law, regulation, dictate, command, rule, disuse, nonobservance, desuetude
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Definition
n. what one is wont to do: usage: frequent repetition of the same act: regular trade or business: a tax on goods: (pl.) duties imposed on imports and exports.—adj. Cus′tomable customary: common.—adv. Cus′tomarily.—n. Cus′tomariness.—adjs. Cus′tomary according to use and wont: holding or held by custom; Cus′tomed accustomed: usual.—ns. Cus′tomer one accustomed to frequent a certain place of business: a buyer: (slang) a person; Cus′tom-house the place where customs or duties on exports and imports are collected.—adj. Cus′tom-shrunk (Shak.) having fewer customers than formerly.
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Examples
- I have already told the reader, that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my custom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- How would the lady-chief of an English school approve this custom? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I do not know, said the man, what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It is a pity, cried Fanny, that the custom should have been discontinued. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Our invariable custom,' replied Mr. Wardle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But, of course, among Lily's friends it's quite the custom for girls to play for money. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- As is the custom upon Barsoom there were thirty-one, supposedly selected by lot from men of the noble class, for nobles were on trial. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There is also another custom peculiar to the city of Philadelphia, and nearly allied to the former. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The word raises up an individual idea, along with a certain custom; and that custom produces any other individual one, for which we may have occasion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I described to him how, when according to his custom he was the first down, he perceived a strange horse wandering over the moor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Meantime, there's a few shillings for you, Grace, just to keep the pot boiling till custom comes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They were all eating out of the platter, not speaking, as is the Spanish custom. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Therefore, give your custom to other than Italian brands of the article. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mistakes with regard to this sometimes ruin the custom-house officer, and frequently occasion much trouble, expense, and vexation to the importer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We are ruled by custom upon Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But in the seaport and markets mingled men of every known race, comparing their religious ideas and customs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The coach-tax and plate tax are examples of the former method of imposing; the greater part of the other duties of excise and customs, of the latter. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Every where around are things that reveal to you something of the customs and history of this forgotten people. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The ancient customs were divided into three branches. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He was heard outside quoting Euripides in a bold and disrespectful tone: Are these your customs? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All this, it seemed, had been the property of the two chieftains I had slain, and now, by the customs of the Tharks, it had become mine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- My knowledge of their customs lent colour to the belief that he was but being escorted to the audience chamber to have sentence passed upon him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And they began to interfere more vigorously with Indian customs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- How did he know, who knew nothing of the customs of human beings? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The defalcation of the revenue of customs occasioned by bounties and drawbacks, of which a great part are obtained fraudulently, is very great. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Amy, my dear, put this dish on; Mr Clennam will excuse the primitive customs to which we are reduced here. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Yes, said Justinian quickly; I keep up all the old Greek customs, though, of course, I adapt them to the needs of my people. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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