What does the word custom mean

As, therefore, the presbyters know that, in accordance with _the custom of the Church_, they are subject to him who has been set over them, so the bishops should know that they are greater than the presbyters, rather _by custom_, than by the truth of an arrangement of the Lord. » ❋ Unknown (1854)

If those ideas are a little bit far fetched for your taste, then you might want to purchase a great bottle of wine or champagne, and have the label custom printed with the couple’s names, and the date of their upcoming nuptials. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Just because the custom is also very much built-in to human behavior, so what? ❋ Unknown (2010)

They took possession, therefore, of Zayla, which they made a den of thieves, established there what they called a custom-house11, and, by means of that post and galleys cruising in the narrow straits of ❋ Unknown (2003)

In some countries, we vary this arrangement by increasing the social freedom of married people; but the custom is accompanied by a commensurate lack of freedom before marriage, which causes questionable results, both in married life and in social life. ❋ Unknown (1898)

This custom is almost universal, even to the present day. ❋ Unknown (1898)

They took possession, therefore, of Zayla, which they made a den of thieves, established there what they called a custom-house [11], and, by means of that post and galleys cruising in the narrow straits of Bab el Mandeb, they laid the ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

Yet when I name custom, I understand not the vulgar custom; for that were a precept no less dangerous to language than life, if we should speak or live after the manners of the vulgar: but that I call custom of speech, which is the consent of the learned; as custom of life, which is the consent of the good. ❋ Ben Jonson (1605)

Robert J. Biggins, a former president of the National Funeral Directors Association, said J.ckson’s body is likely in his casket, which he identified as a custom-made, top-of-the-line coffin made by the Indiana-based Batesville Casket Company that is called a «Promethean.» ❋ Unknown (2009)

It struts around in custom tailored suits and alligator shoes. ❋ Alemayehu G. Mariam (2010)

The custom is happy for three years, or the period of the ARM balloon, the bank makes big fees, and then sells off both the credit risk and the interest rate risk and walks away. ❋ Jane White (2010)

The Lorna Shelf is a wall-mounted, lacquered shelf that is available in custom sizes and colors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My favorite Colombian custom is the having of the soup at lunch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hubris Sonic, a former Special Forces NCO, has twenty years experience in custom software design, and owns several software companies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whenever a loved pig died its owners were in custom bound to go out and kill somebody, anybody. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We are an Australian company specialising in custom made fittings for casinos, clubs, hotels and shopping centres, and we release new concepts and designs every month to our clients. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As we deal in custom made fittings, the form and specs are tailored to suit any specific project, and the fact that the form chosen to present this fitting resembles one of your designs was unfortunate and unintentional. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And then there is the cost of putting in custom counters and a new countertop if you own your home and the non-starter for renters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Variations in custom and culture enrich us all – to a point. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those [shoes], [boy] they be custom ❋ Bobby Joe (2003)

had to give my [bodydropped] [silverado] a [chop top] for that radical custom look ❋ James (2004)

[You can’t polish a turd], but you can [spray paint] it gold, and [call it] custom. ❋ Knowman (2012)

[The car] show was absolutely [packed] with [customs]. ❋ Spinner (2003)

that [civic] is so not custom ❋ SELF MADE!!! (2004)

[Yo that] bitches face is custom. Damn that niggas shit is custom. Yo [what’s good] with these custom ass [hos]. ❋ That Guy Located In (2005)

This [store] has [too many] horrible [customers] ruining our job. ❋ Stanzfield (2005)

“I am a customer, I want what I want, and you don’t get to ask questions!”
“Wow, he started yelling at you because you wouldn’t have [unprotected sex] with a [complete stranger]? What a fucking customer.”
“He is such a customer if he thinks you can get an hour and a half of [footage] down to 15 minutes and still use ‘a lot’ of it.” ❋ Rampaging Hill Giant (2019)

«God, why won’t these [customers] [leave]?» ❋ CrazyTweak (2010)

«[Excuse me], where are your [Dan Brown] [books]?» ❋ Anonymous (2004)

• Adyghe: хабзэ (xaabze)
• Afrikaans: gebruik (af)
• Albanian: doke (sq) m, adet (sq) m
• Arabic: عَادَة‎ f (ʕāda), عُرْف‎ (ar) m (ʕurf)
• Armenian: սովորույթ (hy) (sovoruytʿ), սովորություն (hy) (sovorutʿyun)
• Avar: гӏадат (ʻadat)
• Azerbaijani: adət (az), adət-ənənə
• Bashkir: ғәҙәт (ğäðät)
• Belarusian: звы́чай m (zvýčaj)
• Bengali: প্রথা (protha), রসম (bn) (rośom), রেওয়াজ (bn) (reōẇaj), আদত (adot)
• Bulgarian: оби́чай (bg) m (obíčaj), приви́чка (bg) f (privíčka), на́вик (bg) m (návik)
• Burmese: ထုံးစံ (my) (htum:cam), ဓလေ့ (my) (dha.le.)
• Catalan: costum (ca) m
• Cebuano: batasan
• Chechen: ӏадат (ˀadat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 習慣／习惯 (zh) (xíguàn), 習俗／习俗 (zh) (xísú), 風俗／风俗 (zh) (fēngsú), 俗例 (súlì)

• Czech: obyčej (cs) m, zvyk (cs) m
• Danish: skik, sædvane
• Dutch: manieren (nl), (both mostly plural) gebruiken (nl)
• Esperanto: kutimo
• Estonian: tava, komme
• Finnish: tapa (fi)
• French: coutume (fr) f
• Galician: costume (gl) m, doito m, vezo m
• Georgian: ჩვეულება (čveuleba), წესი (c̣esi)
• German: Brauch (de) m, Gewohnheit (de) f (habit), Sitte (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌹 n (biūhti)
• Greek: συνήθεια (el) f (synítheia)

  Ancient: συνήθεια f (sunḗtheia)

• Hebrew: מִנְהָג‎ (he) (minhag)
• Hindi: रिवाज (hi) m (rivāj), रस्म (hi) f (rasma), प्रथा (hi) f (prathā)
• Hungarian: szokás (hu)
• Iban: adat
• Icelandic: siðvenja (is) f
• Ido: kustumo (io)
• Indonesian: adat (id)
• Irish: nós m, gnás m, béas m, cleachtadh m
• Italian: usanza (it), costume (it), uso (it) m
• Japanese: 習慣 (ja) (しゅうかん, shūkan), 風俗 (ja) (ふうぞく, fūzoku)
• Kazakh: ғұрып (kk) (ğūryp), әдет (kk) (ädet), әдет-ғұрып (kk) (ädet-ğūryp), салт (kk) (salt)
• Khmer: ទំនៀម (km) (tumniəm), ប្រវេណី (km) (prɑveenii), ប្រពៃណី (km) (prɑpɨynii)
• Korean: 습관(習慣) (ko) (seupgwan), 풍속(風俗) (ko) (pungsok), 풍습 (ko) (pungseup)
• Kyrgyz: адат (ky) (adat), урп-адат (ky) (urp-adat), салт (ky) (salt)
• Lao: ກະບິນ (ka bin), ຈາລີດ (chā līt), ທັມນຽມ (tham nīam)
• Latin: cōnsuētūdō f
• Latvian: paraža f, paradums m
• Lithuanian: paprotys (lt) m
• Macedonian: обичај m (običaj), навика f (navika)
• Malay: adat (ms)
• Malayalam: ആചാരം (ml) (ācāraṃ)
• Maore Comorian: mila class 9/10, udzevu class 11
• Mongolian: ёс (mn) (jos), заншил (mn) (zanšil)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bruk (no) m, skikk

• Occitan: costuma (oc) f
• Old English: behogadnes f
• Pashto: دود‎ (ps) m (dod), رسم‎ (ps) m (rásәm), عرف‎ (ps) m (orf)
• Persian: رسم‎ (fa) (rasm), عادت‎ (fa) (‘âdat), هند‎ (fa) (hand), عرف‎ (fa) (‘orf)
• Plautdietsch: Tracht f, Sitten n pl
• Polish: zwyczaj (pl) m, obyczaj (pl) m, nawyk (pl) m (personal, not social), moda (pl) f (bookish)
• Portuguese: costume (pt), hábito (pt)
• Romanian: obicei (ro) n
• Romansch: disa f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan), deisa f (Surmiran), adüs m (Puter, Vallader)
• Russian: обы́чай (ru) m (obýčaj), привы́чка (ru) f (privýčka) (habit)
• Scottish Gaelic: cleachdadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: обичај m

  Roman: običaj (sh) m

• Sicilian: usu (scn) m, abbitùddini f, usanza f, custumi (scn), tradizziuni f
• Slovak: obyčaj m, zvyk m
• Slovene: običaj (sl) m
• Southern Altai: јаҥ (ǰaŋ)
• Spanish: habituación (es) f, costumbre (es), usanza
• Swedish: sed (sv) c, vana (sv), sedvänja (sv) c
• Tagalog: ugali
• Tajik: расм (tg) (rasm), одат (tg) (odat), урфу одат (urfu odat), урф (urf)
• Tamil: வழமை (ta) (vaḻamai)
• Thai: แบบแผน (th) (bɛ̀ɛp-pɛ̌ɛn), ธรรมเนียม (th) (tam-niiam), จารีต (th) (jaa-rîit)
• Turkish: adet (tr), görenek (tr)
• Turkmen: adat (tk), urp-adat, dessur
• Ukrainian: звича́й m (zvyčáj), обича́й m (obyčáj)
• Urdu: رواج‎ m (rivāj), رسم‎ f (rasm), ضابطہ‎ (zābita), عرف‎ (‘urf)
• Uyghur: رەسىم‎ (resim)
• Uzbek: odat (uz)
• Vietnamese: tập quán (vi) (習慣), phong tục (vi) (風俗), tục lệ (vi) (俗例)
• Walloon: uzaedje (wa) m

From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A custom (also called a tradition) is a common way of doing things. It is something that many people do, and have done for a long time. Usually, the people come from the same country, culture, or religion. Usually, they do not know when the custom started.

Many customs are things that people do that are handed down from the past and the Future.
Examples of it are:

• Ceremonies is a class of customary, collective action.
• In some countries bowing to older people is polite and respectful.
• In some countries it is okay to burp while eating food.
• In some countries you take your shoes off before entering the house.
• In some places they sit on the floor and eat.

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Noun	1.	custom — accepted or habitual practice   usage, usance practice, pattern — a customary way of operation or behavior; «it is their practice to give annual raises»; «they changed their dietary pattern» Americanism — a custom that is peculiar to the United States or its citizens Anglicism, Britishism — a custom that is peculiar to England or its citizens consuetude — a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law couvade — a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child Germanism — a custom that is peculiar to Germany or its citizens habit, use — (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; «owls have nocturnal habits»; «she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair»; «long use had hardened him to it» hijab — the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home; «she observes the hijab and does not wear tight clothing» survival — something that survives ritual, rite — any customary observance or practice
	2.	custom — a specific practice of long standing tradition practice — knowledge of how something is usually done; «it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner» habit, wont — an established custom; «it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening» Hadith — (Islam) a tradition based on reports of the sayings and activities of Muhammad and his companions institution — a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; «the institution of marriage»; «the institution of slavery»; «he had become an institution in the theater»
	3.	custom — money collected under a tariff customs, customs duty, impost tariff, duty — a government tax on imports or exports; «they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries» ship money — an impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense
	4.	custom — habitual patronage; «I have given this tailor my custom for many years» trade, patronage — the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; «even before noon there was a considerable patronage»
Adj.	1.	custom — made according to the specifications of an individual custom-made

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custom

noun

1. tradition, practice, convention, ritual, form, policy, rule, style, fashion, usage, formality, etiquette, observance, praxis, unwritten law The custom of lighting the Olympic flame goes back centuries.

3. customers, business, trade, patronage Providing discounts is not the only way to win custom.

Quotations
«Custom reconciles us to everything» [Edmund Burke The Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful]
«a custom»
«More honoured in the breach than the observance» [William Shakespeare Hamlet]

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

custom

noun

1. A habitual way of behaving:

consuetude, habit, habitude, manner, practice, praxis, usage, usance, use, way, wont.

2. The commercial transactions of customers with a supplier:

adjective

Made according to the specifications of the buyer:

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