Results for custom

Definitions of custom:

part of speech: adjective

Made to order; as, custom clothes; doing only work that is ordered; as, a custom tailor.

part of speech: noun

Frequent repetition of the same act; established manner; the practice of frequenting a shop for the purchase of goods; usage; toll or tax.

part of speech: noun

A usual course of action; a frequent repetition of the same act; established or recognized usage; business support; unwritten law.

part of speech: noun

What one is wont to do: usage: frequent repetition of the same act: a frequenting of a shop to buy goods: regular trade or business: a tax on goods:- pl. duties imposed on imports and exports.

Usage examples for custom:

• His hair, which was fair, he wore short, according to the custom of the time. "The Boy's Book of Heroes", Helena Peake

• Their hostess will send them out to dinner together,- which is in marked contrast to the custom later when they are married, for then they will always be separated when in society. "The Etiquette of To-day", Edith B. Ordway

• Is that the Italian custom "Oddsfish!", Robert Hugh Benson