usual
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From French usuel, from Latin usualis (“for use, fit for use, also of common use, customary, common, ordinary, usual”), from usus (“use, habit, custom”), from past participle stem of uti (“to use”).
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usual (comparative more usual, superlative most usual)
- That which most commonly occurs.
- The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.
- It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.
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that which most commonly occurs
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[edit] External links
- usual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- usual in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Most common English words before 1923: goes · youth · sudden · #723: usual · entirely · system · sister
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usual m. and f. (plural usuais)
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usual m. and f. (plural usuales)
