usage

== English == === Alternative forms === usuage (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English usage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French usage. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈjuːzɪd͡ʒ/ === Noun === usage (countable and uncountable, plural usages) Habit, practice. A custom or established practice. [from 14th c.] 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 170: [S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is an usage here. (uncountable) Custom, tradition. [from 14th c.] Utilization. The act of using something; use, employment. [from 14th c.] The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region. [from 14th c.] Prevailing language style: how words are used among a populace. Choice of language style (made by a speaker or writer). usage prescriptions (now archaic) Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense. [from 16th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== “usage” in R.R.K. Hartmann and Gregory James, Dictionary of Lexicography, Routledge, 1998. Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217. === Anagrams === Gause, agues, gause, suage == French == === Etymology === From Latin ūsus + -age. Compare Medieval Latin usagium. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /y.zaʒ/ === Noun === usage m (plural usages) usage, use (lexicography) the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are actually used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis (as opposed to correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority) ==== Derived terms ==== d'usage en usage faire usage hors d'usage ==== Related terms ==== usager ==== See also ==== descriptif, normatif === Further reading === “usage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === auges, sauge, suage == Middle French == === Noun === usage m (plural usages) habit; custom == Old French == === Noun === usage oblique singular, m (oblique plural usages, nominative singular usages, nominative plural usage) usage; use habit; custom