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customary
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?st?m(?)?i/
Noun
customary (plural customaries)
- A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Translations
Adjective
customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)
- In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage
- Synonyms: conventional, habitual
- 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.
- Holding or held by custom
Synonyms
- wont
Derived terms
- customarily
Related terms
- consuetude
- costumal
- costume
- custom
- customer
- customization
- customize
Translations
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formality
English
Etymology
From Middle French formalité. equivalent to formal +? -ity.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æl?ti
Noun
formality (countable and uncountable, plural formalities)
- (uncountable) The state of being formal.
- Something said or done as a matter of form.
- A customary ritual without new or unique meaning.
- (countable) A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.
Translations
Further reading
- formality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- formality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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