usage

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjuːsid͡ʒ/, /ˈjuːzid͡ʒ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

usage (plural usages)

1. The manner or the amount of using; use
2. Habit or accepted practice
3. (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
   1. Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
   2. Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.

Derived terms

• usage dictionary
• usage guide
• usage label
• usage lexicography
• usage note
• usage panel

Translations

the manner or the amount of using; use

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用法 (cmn) (yòngfǎ)

• Finnish: käyttö (fi), käsittely (fi)
• French: usage (fr) m
• German: Verwendung (de) f, Benutzung (de) f, Anwendung (de) f
• Hungarian: használat (hu)
• Japanese: 使い方 (ja) (tsukaikata)

• Malayalam: വിനിയോഗം (ml) (viniyogam)
• Norwegian: bruksområde (no) n
• Persian: کاربرد (fa) (kârbord)
• Portuguese: uso (pt) m
• Russian: использование (ru) (ispólʹzovanije) n, применение (ru) (primenénije) n, обращение (ru) (obraščénije) n, употребление (ru) (upotreblénije) n
• Sanskrit: विनियोगः (sa) (viniyogah)

habit or accepted practice

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 習慣 (cmn), 习惯 (cmn) (xíguàn)

• Finnish: käytäntö (fi)
• French: coutume (fr) f
• German: Brauch (de) m
• Hungarian: szokás (hu), gyakorlat (hu)

• Japanese: 使い方 (ja) (tsukaikata), 習慣 (ja) (しゅうかん, shūkan)
• Norwegian: anvendelse (no) m
• Portuguese: emprego (pt) m
• Russian: обычай (ru) (obýčaj) m, обыкновение (ru) (obyknovénije) n, привычка (ru) (privýčka) f, традиция (ru) (tradícija) f

the way words are spoken or written in a community

• Finnish: kielenkäyttö (fi), puhetapa (fi)
• German: Gebrauch (de) m
• Hungarian: szóhasználat (hu)
• Japanese: 使い方 (ja) (tsukaikata), 用法 (ja) (yōhō)

• Norwegian: bruk (no) m
• Portuguese: emprego (pt) m
• Russian: употребление (ru) (upotreblénije) n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: gebruik (nl)
• German: (1) Nutzung (de) f, (2,3) Benutzung (de) f
• Indonesian: pemakaian (id)
• Italian: uso (it) m, utilizzo (it) m

• Latvian: lietojums (lv) m
• Telugu: వాడుక (te) (vaaDuka)
• Portuguese: (1) uso (pt) m

References

• “usage” in R.R.K. Hartmann and Gregory James, Dictionary of Lexicography, Routledge, 1998.
• Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.

Anagrams

• agues, gause

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French

Etymology

From Latin usus (Medieval Latin usagium) + suffix -age.

Pronunciation

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Noun

usage m (plural usages)

1. usage, use

Related terms

• usager

Anagrams

• auges, sauge, suage

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Middle French

Noun

usage m (plural usages)

1. habit; custom