custom

Definition

  • noun: an action or way of behaving that is usual and traditional among the people in a particular group or place
  • noun: a usage or practice common to many or to a particular place or class or habitual with an individual
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: fashion, habit, practice

Examples

  • As new shops have opened people have been taking their 'custom' [='business'] elsewhere.

  • It is the 'custom' for the bride to wear a white dress on her wedding day.

  • We went through 'customs' at the airport without any difficulty.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) whose natural gifts were poor to those of mine But soft, methinks I scent the morning air. Brief let me be Sleeping within my orchard, my custom always in the... ...upon my restful hour thy uncle stole with juice of cursed hebenon in a vial And in the porches of mine ear (..)
    2015 Hamlet
  • (..) Keeps wassail and a swaggering upspring reels, and as he drains his drafts of rhenish down... ...the kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge - Is it a custom? - Aye, many it is But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born... ...it is a custom more honoured (..)
    2015 Hamlet