customer
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customer
- /ˈkʌs.tə.mə/ UK
- /ˈkʌs.tə.mɚ/
- /ˈkɐs.tə.mə/ Australia, New Zealand
Where it comes from
From Middle English custumer, 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”, adjective), from custuma (“custom, tax”). More at custom. By surface analysis, custom + -er.
noun customers
- A habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client; a person or company who has a custom of buying from a particular business.
- A person or company 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.
- A person, especially one engaging in some sort of interaction with others. a cool customer, a tough customer, an ugly customer
- A native official who exacted customs duties. His houses […] are seized on by the Customer.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: client, user, employer, consumer, clientele, agent, buyer, licensee, purchaser, account, receivable, collaborator, lessee, patronage, subscribe, patron
Translations
Every language
noun (obsolete) habitual patron, regular purchaser, returning client
| Español | parroquiano, casero, marchante, vecero |
|---|---|
| Français | chaland, chalande |
| Deutsch | Stammkunde |
| Italiano | avventore, avventrice |
noun one who purchases or receives a product or service
| Español | cliente, vecero, comensal |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 손님 sonnim, 손 son, 객 gaek, 고객 gogaek, 고객님 gogaengnim |
| 日本語 | 客 kyaku, お客さん o-kyaku-san, 顧客 kokyaku, 得意先 tokui saki |
| 中文 | 顧客 /顾客 gùkè, 主顧 /主顾 zhǔgù |
| हिन्दी | ग्राहक grāhak, मुश्तरी muśtarī |
| Kiswahili | mteja |
| Português | freguês, freguesa, cliente |
| Français | client, cliente |
| Deutsch | Abnehmer, Abnehmerin, Käufer, Käuferin, Kunde, Kundin |
| Italiano | cliente |
| Ελληνικά | πελάτης pelátis, πελάτισσα pelátissa, θαμώνας thamónas |
| Română | client, clientă, mușteriu |
| Русский | клие́нт klijént, клие́нтка klijéntka, зака́зчик zakázčik, зака́зчица zakázčica, покупа́тель pokupátelʹ, покупа́тельница pokupátelʹnica |
| Tiếng Việt | khách hàng |
| العربية | زَبُون zabūn, عَمِيل ʕamīl |
| עברית | לָקוֹחַ lakóakh, לקוחה lakokha |
Talk about this word "customer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/customer. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. customer. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/customer "customer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/customer.Cite this
@misc{customer_2026,
title = {customer},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/customer},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
