different between customary vs widespread
customary
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?st?m(?)?i/
Noun
customary (plural customaries)
- A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Translations
Adjective
customary (comparative more customary, superlative most customary)
- In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage
- Synonyms: conventional, habitual
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- Holding or held by custom
Synonyms
- wont
Derived terms
- customarily
Related terms
- consuetude
- costumal
- costume
- custom
- customer
- customization
- customize
Translations
customary From the web:
- what customary means
- what customary law
- what customary marriage
- what's customary hours
- what's customary occupation
- what's customary tip for movers
- what's customary tip for pizza delivery
- what's customary system
widespread
English
Alternative forms
- wide-spread
Etymology
From wide +? spread.
Adjective
widespread (comparative widerspread or more widespread, superlative widestspread or most widespread)
- Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
Synonyms
- extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universal; see also Thesaurus:widespread
Antonyms
- limited
Derived terms
- widespreadly
- widespreadness
Translations
widespread From the web:
- what widespread means
- what does widespread mean
- widespread define
- definition widespread
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