usage

Alternative forms

• usuage (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈjuːzɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

usage (countable and uncountable, plural usages)

1. Habit, practice.
   1. A custom or established practice.
   2. (uncountable) Custom, tradition.
2. Utilization.
   1. The act of using something; use, employment.
   2. The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region.
   3. (now archaic) Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense.

Anagrams

• Gause, agues, gause, suage

Pronunciation

• IPA: /y.zaʒ/

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)

Anagrams

• auges, sauge, suage

Noun

usage m (plural usages)

1. habit; custom

Noun

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

1. usage; use
2. habit; custom