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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure;
- Example: "grew the usual vegetables"
- Example: "the usual summer heat"
- Example: "came at the usual time"
- Example: "the child's usual bedtime"

2. commonly encountered;
- Example: "a common (or familiar) complaint"
- Example: "the usual greeting"
[syn: common, usual]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Usual \U"su*al\, a. [L. usualis, from usus use: cf. F. usuel.
   See Use, n.]
   Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary
   practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary;
   ordinary; habitual; common.
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         Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and
         frequent in their times.                 --Hooker.
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         We can make friends of these usual enemies. --Baxter.
   [1913 Webster] -- U"su*al*ly, adv. -- U"su*al*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

usual
    adj 1: occurring or encountered or experienced or observed
           frequently or in accordance with regular practice or
           procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer
           heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual
           bedtime" [ant: unusual]
    2: commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint";
       "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual]