usage

See also: usagé

English

Alternative forms

• usuage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English usage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈjuːzɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

usage (countable and uncountable, 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.
4. (obsolete) The treatment of someone or something.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:

     Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That both were bent t'avenge his usage base […]

   • 1693, [John Locke], “§115”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:

     Satisfy a child by a constant course of your care and kindness, that you perfectly love him, and he may by degrees be accustom'd to bear very painful and rough usage from you, without flinching or complaining

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

the manner or the amount of using; use

• Assamese: ব্যৱহাৰ (byowohar)
• Catalan: ús (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用法 (zh) (yòngfǎ)

• Dutch: gebruik (nl) n
• Finnish: käyttö (fi), käsittely (fi)
• French: usage (fr) m
• Georgian: გამოყენება (gamoq̇eneba), სარგებლობა (sargebloba), მოხმარება (moxmareba)
• German: Verwendung (de) f, Benutzung (de) f, Anwendung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: χρῆσις f (khrêsis)

• Hungarian: használat (hu)
• Japanese: 使い方 (tsukaikata)

• Latin: ūsus (la) m
• Malayalam: വിനിയോഗം (ml) (viniyōgaṃ)
• Maori: whakamahinga
• Norwegian: bruksområde n
• Persian: کاربرد‎ (fa) (kârbord)
• Polish: użycie (pl) n
• Portuguese: uso (pt) m
• Russian: испо́льзование (ru) n (ispólʹzovanije), примене́ние (ru) n (primenénije), обраще́ние (ru) n (obraščénije), употребле́ние (ru) n (upotreblénije)
• Sanskrit: विनियोगः (sa) (viniyogaḥ)
• Serbo-Croatian: upotreba (sh) f
• Sylheti: ꠛꠦꠛꠀꠞ (beboar), ꠁꠍ꠆ꠔꠦꠝꠣꠟ (istemal)

habit or accepted practice

• Catalan: ús (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 習慣 (zh), 习惯 (zh) (xíguàn)

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

• Japanese: 使い方 (tsukaikata), 習慣 (ja) (しゅうかん, shūkan)
• Norwegian: anvendelse (no) m
• Polish: zwyczaj (pl) m, praktyka (pl) f, uzus (pl) m
• Portuguese: emprego (pt) m, uso (pt)
• Russian: обы́чай (ru) m (obýčaj), обыкнове́ние (ru) n (obyknovénije), привы́чка (ru) f (privýčka), тради́ция (ru) f (tradícija)
• Spanish: uso (es), usanza

the way words are spoken or written in a community

• Czech: jazyková praxe f
• Esperanto: lingvaĵo
• Finnish: kielenkäyttö (fi), puhetapa
• French: usage (fr) m
• German: Gebrauch (de) m
• Hungarian: szóhasználat (hu)
• Indonesian: praktik berbahasa

• Japanese: 使い方 (tsukaikata), 用法 (ja) (yōhō)
• Norwegian: bruk (no) m
• Polish: praktyka językowa f, uzus językowy m
• Portuguese: emprego (pt) m
• Russian: употребле́ние (ru) n (upotreblénije), языковая практика f (jazykovaja praktika), словоупотребление (ru) n (slovoupotreblenije)
• Serbo-Croatian: jezična uporaba f, jezična praksa f, jezična izvedba f
• Slovak: jazyková prax f

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 Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} gebruik (nl)
• German: (1) ^{(please verify)} Nutzung (de) f, (2,3) ^{(please verify)} Benutzung (de) f
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} pemakaian (id)

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} uso (it) m, ^{(please verify)} utilizzo (it) m
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} lietojums m
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} వాడుక (te) (vāḍuka)

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

• Gause, agues, gause, suage

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.zaʒ/

• audio

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Noun

usage m (plural usages)

1. usage, use
2. (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are actually used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis (as opposed to correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority).

Related terms

• usager

See also

• descriptif, normatif

Further reading

• “usage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• auges, sauge, suage

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Middle French

Noun

usage m (plural usages)

1. habit; custom

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Old French

Noun

usage m (oblique plural usages, nominative singular usages, nominative plural usage)

1. usage; use
2. habit; custom