customary
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customary
- /ˈkʌs.tə.m(ə.)ɹi/ UK
- /ˈkʌs.təˌmɛɹ.i/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle English custumary, from Medieval Latin custumarius. By surface analysis, custom + -ary.
adjective more customary · most customary
- In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage. 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
- Holding or held by custom. customary tenants
noun customaries
- A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
