custom
IPA: kˈʌstʌm
noun
- Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.
- (dated outside UK) Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.
- (collectively) The habitual patrons (i.e. customers) of a business; business support.
- (law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. Compare prescription.
- Traditional beliefs or rituals.
- A custom (made-to-order) piece of art, pornography, etc.
- (obsolete) Familiar acquaintance; familiarity.
- (archaic, uncountable) Toll, tax, or tribute.
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To make familiar; to accustom.
- (transitive, obsolete) To supply with customers.
- (transitive, obsolete) To pay the customs of.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To have a custom.
adjective
- Created under particular specifications, specially to fit one's needs: specialized, unique, custom-made.
- Own, personal, not standard or premade.
- (archaic) Accustomed; usual.
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Examples of "custom" in Sentences
- This custom is almost universal, even to the present day.
- My favorite Colombian custom is the having of the soup at lunch.
- Just because the custom is also very much built-in to human behavior, so what?
- They took possession, therefore, of Zayla, which they made a den of thieves, established there what they called a custom-house11, and, by means of that post and galleys cruising in the narrow straits of
- If those ideas are a little bit far fetched for your taste, then you might want to purchase a great bottle of wine or champagne, and have the label custom printed with the couple's names, and the date of their upcoming nuptials.
- They took possession, therefore, of Zayla, which they made a den of thieves, established there what they called a custom-house [11], and, by means of that post and galleys cruising in the narrow straits of Bab el Mandeb, they laid the
- In some countries, we vary this arrangement by increasing the social freedom of married people; but the custom is accompanied by a commensurate lack of freedom before marriage, which causes questionable results, both in married life and in social life.
- Robert J. Biggins, a former president of the National Funeral Directors Association, said J.ckson's body is likely in his casket, which he identified as a custom-made, top-of-the-line coffin made by the Indiana-based Batesville Casket Company that is called a "Promethean."
- As, therefore, the presbyters know that, in accordance with _the custom of the Church_, they are subject to him who has been set over them, so the bishops should know that they are greater than the presbyters, rather _by custom_, than by the truth of an arrangement of the Lord. "
- Yet when I name custom, I understand not the vulgar custom; for that were a precept no less dangerous to language than life, if we should speak or live after the manners of the vulgar: but that I call custom of speech, which is the consent of the learned; as custom of life, which is the consent of the good.
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