usage

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English [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈjuːsid͡ʒ/, /ˈjuːzid͡ʒ/
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Noun [edit]

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.

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Translations [edit]

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References [edit]

  • “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.

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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

usage m (plural usages)

  1. usage, use

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Middle French [edit]

Noun [edit]

usage m (plural usages)

  1. habit; custom