custom
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
custom/ˈkʌstəm/
▶noun
- 1 a traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.
■ Law established usage having the force of law or right.
- 2 Brit. regular dealings with a shop or business by customers.
– origin ME: from OFr. coustume, based on L. consuetudo, from consuetus, past part. of consuescere ‘accustom’.
'custom' also found in these Oxford entries:
accustom
- ancient lights
- Ash Wednesday
- baker
- barbershop
- barker
- bite
- Boxing Day
- break
- bundle
- by-law
- civil
- common law
- consuetude
- costume
- couvade
- customary
- custom-built
- custom house
- custom-made
- deep-six
- dharma
- endogamy
- exogamy
- formality
- French leave
- genuine
- hatchet
- illegal
- illicit
- institution
- international law
- Italianism
- keep
- knuckle
- kowtow
- levirate
- matrilocal
- minhag
- moral
- mores
- non-observance
- order
- patrilocal
- patronage
- polygamy
- practise
- praxis
- prescription
