usage Synonyms & Antonyms
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Usage as a Noun
Habit, practice. A custom or established practice. Custom, tradition.
A custom or established practice.
Custom, tradition.
Utilization. The act of using something; use, employment. The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region. Prevailing language style: how words are used among a populace.
In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage.
The act of using something; use, employment.
The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region. Prevailing language style: how words are used among a populace.
In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage.
Prevailing language style: how words are used among a populace.
In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage.
Choice of language style (made by a speaker or writer).
usage prescriptions
Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense.
The manner or the amount of using; use.
Habit or accepted practice.
The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
The treatment of someone or something.
Usage in a Sentence
In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage.
usage prescriptions
In prescriptive ideal, writers will optimize their usage.
Word Forms & Grammar
usage (countable and uncountable, plural usages)
Origin of Usage
From Middle English usage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French usage. By surface analysis, use + -age.
Usage in Brief
| Part of speech | noun |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/ |
| Meaning | Habit, practice. A custom or established practice. Custom, tradition |
| Plural | usages |