Custom Definition

kŭstəm

customs

noun

customs

A traditional practice or usual way of doing something followed by a social group or people.

American Heritage

A social convention carried on by tradition and enforced by social disapproval of any violation.

Webster's New World

Such practices, collectively.

Webster's New World

A usual practice or habitual way of behaving; habit.

Webster's New World

A habitual practice of a person.

My custom of reading a little before sleep.

American Heritage

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adjective

Made or done to order or, sometimes, made extra fine, as if to order.

Webster's New World

Making things to order, or dealing in things made to order.

A custom tailor.

Webster's New World

Specializing in the making or selling of made-to-order goods.

A custom tailor.

American Heritage

Made in a different way from usual, specially to fit one's needs.

My feet are as big as powerboats, so I need custom shoes.

Wiktionary

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ready-made

verb

(obsolete) To make familiar; to accustom.

Wiktionary

(obsolete) To supply with customers.

Wiktionary

(obsolete) To pay the customs of.

Wiktionary

(obsolete, intransitive) To have a custom.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Custom

Noun

Singular:

custom

Plural:

customs

Origin of Custom

From Middle English custume, from Anglo-Norman custume, from Old French coustume, from Vulgar Latin *cōnsuētūmen, from Latin cōnsuētūdinem, accusative singular of cōnsuētūdō (“custom, habit”), from cōnsuēscō (“accustom, habituate”), from con- (“with”) + suēscō (“become used or accustomed”), inchoative form of sueō (“I am accustomed”), perhaps from suus (“one's own, his own”); see consuetude. Displaced native Middle English wune, wone (“custom, habit, practice”) (from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice, rite”)), Middle English side, sid (“custom”) (from Old English sidu, sido (“custom, note, manner”)), Middle English cure (“custom, choice, preference”) (from Old English cyre (“choice, choosing, free will”)).

From Wiktionary
Middle English custume from Old French costume from Latin cōnsuētūdō cōnsuētūdin- from cōnsuētus past participle of cōnsuēscere to accustom com- intensive pref. com– suēscere to become accustomed s(w)e- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition