different between customer vs customary

English

Etymology

From Middle English customere, custommere, from Old French coustumier, costumier (compare modern French coutumier), from Medieval Latin custumarius (“a toll-gatherer, tax-collector”, noun), from custumarius (“pertaining to custom or customs”, adj), from custuma (“custom, tax”). More at custom.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?st?m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?st?m?/

Noun

customer (plural customers)

1. A patron, a client; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.

   Every person who passes by is a potential customer.

2. (informal) A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others.

   a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer

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• costumer

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?st?m(?)?i/

Noun

customary (plural customaries)

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

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Adjective

customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)

1. 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.

2. Holding or held by custom

Synonyms

• wont

Derived terms

• customarily

Related terms

• consuetude
• costumal
• costume
• custom
• customer
• customization
• customize

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