custom
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)customs
- accepted or habitual practiceSynonyms: usageusanceType of practice, survivalKinds ritual, habit, Americanism, couvade, Germanism, consuetude, hijab, Anglicism
- a specific practice of long standingSynonyms: traditionType of practiceKinds habit, institution, Hadith
- money collected under a tariffSynonyms: customscustoms dutyimpostType of duty, tariffKinds ship money
- habitual patronage“I have given this tailor my custom for many years”Type of trade, patronage
Adjective (1)
- made according to the specifications of an individualSynonyms: custom-madeOpposite ready-madeSimilar bespoke, custom-built
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Translations
Noun frequent repetition of the same act
- Spanish
- costumbre
- French
- coutume
- German
- Gewohnheit
- Italian
- abitudine
- Portuguese
- costume
- Turkish
- görenek
- Russian
- обы́чай obýčaj
- Arabic
- عَادَة ʕāda
- Chinese
- 习惯 xíguàn
- Japanese
- 習慣 shūkan
25 more languages
- Polish
- obyczaj
- Swedish
- sed
- Greek
- συνήθεια synítheia
- Korean
- 풍속 pungsok
- Indonesian
- adat
- Vietnamese
- phong tục
- Hungarian
- szokás
- Portuguese (PT)
- costume
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 習慣 xíguàn
- Albanian
- adet
- Catalan
- costum
- Czech
- zvyk
- Danish
- sædvane
- Esperanto
- kutimo
- Estonian
- komme
- Finnish
- tapa
- Georgian
- ჩვეულება čveuleba
- Hebrew
- מִנְהָג minhag
- Icelandic
- siðvenja
- Norwegian
- bruk
- Romanian
- obicei
- Scottish Gaelic
- àbhaist
- Serbo-Croatian
- običaj
- Swahili
- desturi
- Walloon
- uzaedje
Adjective custom-made, made to order
- Spanish
- a medida
- French
- sur mesure
- German
- maßgeschneidert
- Portuguese
- personalizado
- Russian
- сде́ланный на зака́з sdélannyj na zakáz
- Chinese
- 定制 dìngzhì
- Portuguese (PT)
- personalizado
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 定製 dìngzhì
- Czech
- uživatelský
- Finnish
- erikoisvalmisteinen
1 more language
- Yiddish
- באַשטעלט bashtelt
Noun long-established practice
- Spanish
- costumbre
- French
- coutume
- German
- Brauch
- Italian
- costume
- Portuguese
- costume
- Russian
- обы́чай obýčaj
- Dutch
- gewoonte
- Polish
- zwyczaj
- Swedish
- sed
- Vietnamese
- phong tục
18 more languages
- Hungarian
- szokás
- Portuguese (PT)
- costume
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 習俗 xísú
- Catalan
- costum
- Danish
- hævd
- Esperanto
- kutimo
- Estonian
- komme
- Finnish
- käytäntö
- Georgian
- ჩვეულება čveuleba
- Hebrew
- מנהג minhag
- Kurdish
- adet
- Norwegian
- tradisjon
- Romanian
- obicei
- Scottish Gaelic
- cleachdadh
- Serbo-Croatian
- tradicija
- Swahili
- desturi
- Welsh
- arfer
- Yiddish
- מינהג mineg
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. custume, costume, Anglo-Norman coustome, F. coutume, fr. (assumed) LL. consuetumen custom, habit, fr. L. consuetudo, -dinis, fr. consuescere to accustom, verb inchoative fr. consuere to be accustomed; con- + suere to be accustomed, prob. originally, to make one's own, fr. the root of suus one's own; akin to E. so, adv. Cf. Consuetude, Costume.
1. Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
And teach customs which are not lawful.— Acts xvi. 21.
Moved beyond his custom, Gama said.— Alfred Tennyson
A custom More honored in the breach than the observance.— William Shakespeare
2. Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support.
Let him have your custom, but not your votes.— Joseph Addison
3. Law Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.
☞ Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. Francis Wharton
4. Familiar acquaintance; familiarity. obsolete
Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.— William Shakespeare
Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. — General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom. — Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.
Synonyms: Practice; fashion. See Habit, and Usage.
Origin: Cf. OF. costumer. Cf. Accustom.
1. To make familiar; to accustom. obsolete Asa Gray
2. To supply with customers. obsolete Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
To have a custom. obsolete
On a bridge he custometh to fight.— Edmund Spenser
Origin: OF. coustume, F. coutume, tax, i. e., the usual tax. See 1st Custom.
1. The customary toll, tax, or tribute.
Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom.— Rom. xiii. 7.
2. pl. Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
To pay the customs of. obsolete Christopher Marlowe
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
(Or "bespoke") An adjective describing any product that is special in some way, individually created for a specific user or system, as opposed to generic or off-the-shelf.
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