usual
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From Middle English usual, from Old French usuel, from Latin ūsuālis (“for use, fit for use, also of common use, customary, common, ordinary, usual”), from ūsus (“use, habit, custom”), from the past participle stem of ūtī (“to use”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃eyt- (“to take along, fetch”). Displaced native Old English ġewunelīċ.
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- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈjuːʒʊəl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈjuːʒuəl/, /ˈjuːʒəl/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: u‧su‧al
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usual (comparative more usual, superlative most usual)
- Most commonly occurring; typical.
- The preference of a boy to a girl is a usual occurrence in some parts of China.
- It is becoming more usual these days to rear children as bilingual.
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usual (uncountable)
- The typical state of something, or something that is typical.
- (colloquial) A specific good or service (e.g. a drink) that someone typically orders.
- I'll just have the usual.
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Sometimes colloquially shortened to the first syllable (IPA(key): /juːʒ/), an overwhelmingly spoken-only slang word with no single widely accepted spelling (see uzhe).
Further reading edit
- “usual”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “usual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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usual m or f (masculine and feminine plural usuals)
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- “usual” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “usual”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “usual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “usual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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usual m or f (plural usuais)
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- “usual” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
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From Old French usuel.
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usual
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- “ūsuā̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-08.
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usual
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usual m or f (plural usuais)
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usual m or f (masculine and feminine plural usuales)
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- “usual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014