Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise(noun)

   the act of using

   "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers"

2. custom, usage, usance(noun)

   accepted or habitual practice

3. usage(noun)

   the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written

   "English usage"; "a usage borrowed from French"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. usage(Noun)

   The manner or the amount of using; use

2. usage(Noun)

   Habit or accepted practice

3. usage(Noun)

   The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.

Origin: From and usage.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Usage(noun)

   the act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage

2. Usage(noun)

   manners; conduct; behavior

3. Usage(noun)

   long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method

4. Usage(noun)

   customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification

5. Usage(noun)

   experience

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Usage

   ū′zāj, n. act or mode of using: treatment: practice: custom.—ns. U′sager, one of the non-jurors who maintained 'the usages'—mixed chalices, oblation in prayer of consecration, and prayer for the dead. [Fr.,—Low L.,—L. usus.]

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. usage

   The consecration in time of something that was originally absurd.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'usage' in Nouns Frequency: #2533

Anagrams for usage »

1. agues, gause

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of usage in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of usage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Nye County:

   They confirmed his usage on Saturday but were unsure if it had continued.

2. Douglas Adams:

   Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

3. David Stivers:

   People up here are also very conscious about water usage and the expense of water in this area.

4. Rounds Chief Executive Dany Fishel:

   The focus for 2015 is on an expansion of the platform and increasing usage, and revenue will follow.

5. Tingting Shen:

   Among those who have been interrogated by police in the past year, condom usage rates are clearly lower.

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