usage
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈjuːsid͡ʒ/, /ˈjuːzid͡ʒ/
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[edit] Noun
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usage (plural usages)
- The manner or the amount of using; use
- Habit or accepted practice
- (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuitition or from corpus analysis.
- Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
- Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.
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[edit] Translations
the manner or the amount of using; use
habit or accepted practice
the way words are spoken or written in a community
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[edit] 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.
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Latin usus (Mediaeval Latin usagium, suffix -age).
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[edit] Noun
usage m. (plural usages)
