| Main Entry: | usage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | habit, custom |
Synonyms: |
acceptance, control, convention, currency, form, formula, habitude, handling, management, matter of course, method, mode, operation, practice, praxis, procedure, regime, regulation, rote, routine, rule, running, tradition, treatment, trick, use, way, wont |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | ceremony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | etiquette |
Synonyms: |
ceremonial, conformity, decorum, form, formal courtesy, formalism, formality, nicety, politeness, pomp, preciseness, prescription, propriety, protocol, strictness, usage |
| Main Entry: | convention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practice, tradition |
Synonyms: |
canon, code, covenance, custom, etiquette, fashion, form, formality, habit, law, percept, precept, propriety, rule, understanding, usage |
Antonyms: |
strangeness |
| Main Entry: | custom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | habitual action |
Synonyms: |
addiction, beaten path, characteristic, consuetude, daily grind, fashion, form, grind*, groove, habit, habitude, hang-up, into*, manner, matter of course, mode, observance, practice, praxis, precedent, procedure, proprieties, routine, rule, second nature, shot, swim, thing, trick, usage, use, way, wont |
| Notes: | costume and custom were actually two forms of the same Latin root consuetudinem 'habit, custom,' with costume first meaning 'manners and customs belonging to a particular time and place' |
Antonyms: |
departure, deviation, difference, divergence, irregularity |
| Main Entry: | custom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ritual, traditional action |
Synonyms: |
attitude, canon, ceremony, character, convention, conventionalism, customariness, design, dictates, established way, etiquette, fashion, folkways, form, formality, inheritence, manner, matter of course, method, mode, mold, mores, observance, observation, pattern, performance, policy, practice, praxis, precedent, precept, rite, routine, rule, second nature, style, system, taste, type, unwritten law, unwritten rule, usage, use, vogue, way |
Antonyms: |
departure, deviation |
| Main Entry: | decorum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriate behavior, good manners |
Synonyms: |
breeding, civility, conduct, convenance, convention, correctitude, correctness, courtliness, decency, demeanor, deportment, dignity, etiquette, form, formality, gentility, good grace, gravity, habits, order, orderliness, politeness, politesse, properness, propriety, protocol, punctilio, respectability, seemliness, tact, usage |
Antonyms: |
bad behavior, bad manners, impoliteness, indecency, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | diction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | style of speech; articulation |
Synonyms: |
command of language, delivery, elocution, eloquence, enunciation, expression, fluency, gift of gab, inflection, intonation, language, line, lingo, locution, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pronunciation, rhetoric, usage, verbalism, verbiage, vocabulary, wordage, wording |
| Main Entry: | employment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | using something |
Synonyms: |
adoption, appliance, application, disposition, exercise, exercising, exertion, exploitation, handling, operation, play, purpose, usage, usance, use, utilization |
Antonyms: |
misuse |
| Main Entry: | etiquette |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manners, politeness |
Synonyms: |
amenities, civility, code, convention, courtesy, customs, decency, decorum, deportment, dignity, form, formalities, good behavior, mores, p's and q's, politesse, proper behavior, propriety, protocol, rules, seemliness, social graces, suavities, usage |
Antonyms: |
bad manners |
| Main Entry: | fashion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latest style, prevailing taste |
Synonyms: |
appearance, bandwagon, chic, configuration, convention, craze, cry, cultism, cultus, custom, cut, dernier cri, fad, faddism, figure, form, furor, in thing, last word, latest, latest thing, line*, look, make, mode, model, mold, newest wrinkle, pattern, rage, shape, thing*, tone, trend, usage, vogue |