usage
See also: usagé
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈjuːzɪd͡ʒ/
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Noun
usage (countable and uncountable, plural usages)
- The manner or the amount of using; use.
- Habit or accepted practice.
- (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
- Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
- Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.
- (obsolete) The treatment of someone or something.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:
- Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That both were bent t'avenge his usage base […]
- John Locke
- A child, by a constant course of kindness, may be accustomed to bear very rough usage without flinching or complaining.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:
Derived terms
- usage dictionary
- usage guide
- usage label
- usage lexicography
- usage note
- usage panel
Translations
the manner or the amount of using; use
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habit or accepted practice
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the way words are spoken or written in a community
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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.
French
Etymology
From Latin ūsus (Medieval Latin usagium) + suffix -age.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.zaʒ/
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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).
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- “usage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
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