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See also:usagé

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishusage, fromAnglo-Norman andOld Frenchusage.

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Noun

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usage (countable anduncountable,pluralusages)

  1. Habit, practice.
    1. Acustom or establishedpractice.[from 14th c.]
      • 1792,James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.),Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 170:
        [S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is anusage here.
      • 1846 October 1 –1848 April 1,Charles Dickens,Dombey and Son, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1848,→OCLC:
        Mrs. Wickam, agreeably to theusage of some ladies in her condition, pursued[…] the subject, without any compunction.
    2. (uncountable)Custom,tradition.[from 14th c.]
  2. Utilization.
    1. Theact ofusing something;use,employment.[from 14th c.]
      • 2025 February 19, 'Industry Insider', “South West boost”, inRAIL, number1029, page 68, about theFalmouth branch:
        Demand continues to increase, and in 2023-24 recordedusage was higher thanpre-COVID, with 384,000 passenger journeys in total (of which 247,000 were at the town location). At the other end of the branch,Truro station hadusage of 1.19 million, of which 255,000 were recorded as interchange passengers.
    3. The established custom of usinglanguage; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region.[from 14th c.]
      2. Prevailing language style: how words are used among a populace.
        Indescriptive fact, word senses are established byusage.
      4. Choice of language style (made by aspeaker orwriter).
        usage prescriptions
        Inprescriptive ideal, writers will optimize theirusage.
    4. (nowarchaic) Action towards someone;treatment, especially in negative sense.[from 16th c.]

Derived terms

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Translations

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act of using something; use—see alsouse
habit or accepted practice
the way words are spoken or written in a community

References

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  • “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.

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French

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Etymology

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FromLatinūsus +-age. CompareMedieval Latinusagium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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usage m (pluralusages)

  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)

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Middle French

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Noun

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usage m (pluralusages)

  1. habit;custom

Old French

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Noun

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usageoblique singular, m (oblique pluralusages,nominative singularusages,nominative pluralusage)

  1. usage;use
  2. habit;custom
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