Definitions for customs

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customs cus·tom

Spelling: [kuhs-tuh m]

IPA: /ˈkʌs təm/

Customs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in customs (cmosstu).

Definitions for customs

noun

1. a habitual practice; the usual way of acting in given circumstances.
2. habits or usages collectively; convention.
3. a practice so long established that it has the force of law.
4. such practices collectively.
5. Sociology. a group pattern of habitual activity usually transmitted from one generation to another.
6. toll; duty.
7. customs. (used with a singular or plural verb) duties imposed by law on imported or, less commonly, exported goods. (used with a singular verb) the government department that collects these duties. (used with a singular verb) the section of an airport, station, etc., where baggage is checked for contraband and for goods subject to duty.
8. regular patronage of a particular shop, restaurant, etc.
9. the customers or patrons of a business firm, collectively.
10. the aggregate of customers.
11. (in medieval Europe) a customary tax, tribute, or service owed by peasants to their lord.

adjective

1. made specially for individual customers:
2. dealing in things so made, or doing work to order:

Origin of customs

1150-1200; Middle English custume Anglo-French; Old French costume Vulgar Latin *co(n)s(uē)tūmin-, replacing Latin consuētūdin- (stem of consuētūdō), equivalent to consuēt(us) accustomed, pas

Examples for customs

There was in this man an Oriental nobility choked by Western fashion and customs.

The aircraft stops once to clear South African customs, then flies on to Botswana.

“Times, people, and places have changed, along with different lifestyles and customs,” Maria says.

“The acts [are] at odds with morality and customs that are penalized by Dominican laws,” the letter also read.

Manners and customs change no less quickly than headgear and skirts.

It is curious to observe how customs and ceremonies degenerate.

The baron guessed at this circumstance from the customs of that age, and happened to be in the right.

They thought their own habits and customs just a trifle better than those of anybody else.

customs and Border Protection would prefer the term “humanitarian campaign.”

The customs officials insisted that he submit to fingerprinting before he was allowed to board his connecting flight.