usage.
usage, use
Meaning & usage
usage, use
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)
Where this word comes from
From Middle French usage, from Old French usage. By surface analysis, user + -age. Compare Medieval Latin usagium.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.