Dictionary Definition
custom adj : made according to the specifications
of an individual [syn: custom-made,
customized, customised] [ant: ready-made]
Noun
2 a specific practice of long standing [syn:
tradition]
4 habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor
my custom for many years"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /kʌstəm/
Noun
- Frequent repetition of the same
act; way of acting common to
many; ordinary manner;
habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.
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- And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21.
- Moved beyond his custom, Gama said. Tennyson.
- A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shakespeare
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- Habitual buying of
goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for
making purchases or giving orders; business support.
- Let him have your custom, but not your votes. Addison.
- In the context of "law": Long-established practice, considered
as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage.
See Usage, and Prescription.
- Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without custom. Wharton.
- In the context of "obsolete": Familiar acquaintance;
familiarity.
- Age can not wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Shakespeare
- The customary toll,
tax, or tribute.
- Render, therefore, to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom. Rom. xiii. 7.
- Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported.
Translations
Frequent repetition of the same act
Habitual buying of goods
- Dutch: klandizie
- German: Gewohnheit
Long-established practice
Familiar acquaintance; familiarity
- Dutch: bekendheid
- German: Gewohnheit
The customary toll, tax, or tribute
- Dutch: heffing, tol, accijns
- German: Zoll
- Russian: пошлина, сбор
Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities,
imported or exported
Translations to be checked
Adjective
- made in a different way from usual, specially to fit one's
needs
- My feet are as big as powerboats, so I need custom shoes.
Verb
- In the context of "obsolete}}
Extensive Definition
Custom may refer to:
- Custom (law) or customary law, laws and regulations established by common practice
- Custom (guitar), a model of guitar made by Fender
- Custom (musician), stage name for New York based musician Duane Lavold
- Customs, a tariff on imported or exported goods
- Customization, anything made or modified to personal taste
- Custom car
- Kimber Custom, a type of pistol
- Norm (sociology), a rule that is socially enforced
- Convention (norm), a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted rules, norms, standards or criteria, often taking the form of a custom
- Tradition ways and culture passed down through the centuries
- Patronage, as in I'll take my custom (i.e. "business") elsewhere!
See also
custom in German: Zoll
custom in Hebrew: מנהג (פירושונים)
custom in Swedish: Tull
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi,
Sunna, Talmud, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, ancient wisdom, archetypal
myth, archetypal pattern, assembled, automatism, bad habit,
bearing, behavior, behavior pattern,
behavioral norm, behavioral science, bienseance, bon ton, built, business, canon, carriage, carriage trade,
cast, characteristic, civility, clientage, clientele, common law,
comportment,
conduct, conformity, constructed, consuetude, convenance, convention, conventional
usage, conventionalism,
conventionality,
correctness,
crafted, created, creature of habit,
culture pattern, custom-built, custom-made, customs, decency, decorousness, decorum, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, dues, duty, especially, etiquette, excise, exclusively, expressly, extracted, fabricated, fashion, fashioned, fixture, folk motif, folklore, folktale, folkway, force of habit,
forged, form, formality, formed, gathered, gestures, goings-on, good form,
good name, goodwill,
grown, guise, habit, habit pattern, habitude, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, haute couture, high
fashion, homemade,
homespun, immemorial
usage, impost, institution, law, legend, levy, lore, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, maintien, man-made, manner, manners, manufactured, market, matter of course,
method, methodology, methods, mien, milled, mined, mode, modus vivendi, mold, molded, motions, movements, moves, myth, mythology, observable
behavior, particularly, patronage, pattern, peculiarity, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, precedent, precept, prefab, prefabricated, prescription, presence, prevailing taste,
procedure, proceeding, processed, proper thing,
propriety, public, purchasing public, put
together, racial memory, raised, ready-for-wear,
ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, repute, ritual, routine, rubric, rule, rural market, second nature,
seemliness, shaped, smelted, social convention,
social science, social usage, specially, stereotype, stereotyped
behavior, stream of fashion, style, suburban market, support, swim, tactics, tailor-made, tariff, tax, to order, toll, tone, trade, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, traffic, trend, trick, usage, use, vogue, way, way of life, ways, well-built, well-constructed,
well-made, wont, youth
market