English - Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.

English - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːsid͡ʒ/, /ˈjuːzid͡ʒ/

English - Noun

usage (plural usages)

1. The manner or the amount of using; use
2. Habit or accepted practice
3. (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
   1. Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
   2. Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.

Derived terms

• usage dictionary
• usage guide
• usage label
• usage lexicography
• usage note
• usage panel

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.

English - Anagrams

• agues, gause

French - Etymology

From Latin usus (Medieval Latin usagium) + suffix -age.

French - Noun

usage m (plural usages)

1. usage, use
2. (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

• usager

French - Anagrams

• auges, sauge, suage

French - External Links

• “usage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French - Noun

usage m (plural usages)

1. habit; custom

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