customary
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈkʌstəm(ə)ɹi/
Noun

customary (plural customaries)

  1. A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Translations Adjective

customary

  1. In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage
    Synonyms: conventional, habitual
    • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  2. Holding or held by custom
    customary tenants
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