Definitions for usages

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usages us·age

Spelling: [yoo-sij, -zij]

IPA: /ˈyu sɪdʒ, -zɪdʒ/

Usages is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in usages (aegssu).

Definitions for usages

noun

1. a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice:
2. the customary manner in which a language or a form of a language is spoken or written:
3. a particular instance of this:
4. any manner of doing or handling something; treatment:
5. habitual or customary use; long-continued practice:
6. an act of using or employing; use.

Origin of usages

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French Medieval Latin ūsāticum, equivalent to Latin ūs(us) (see use) + -āticum -age

Examples for usages

Living so long in the East, he has unlearned the laws, the manners, and the usages of his country.

Now their customes and usages in both these was in this manner.

“Blaspheme not against the usages of our city,” said Pietro Cennini, much offended.

Arab religion was based on the ideas and usages which have been described in chap.

He had been taken prisoner when engaged in some exploit which was contrary to the usages of war.

It is our custom to think out the consistency of all our doctrines and usages.

Some usages contain only a slight element of right and ought.

Only experience produces judgments of the expediency of some usages.

Betty's ignorance of the usages of good society stood her friend.

The former was derived from, and regulated by, the laws and usages of nations.