Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being in the habit.
- adjective Having been adapted to the existing environment and conditions.
- adjective Frequently practiced, used, or experienced; customary: synonym: usual.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Often practised or used; customary; habitual; made familiar through use; usual; wonted: as, in their accustomed manner.
- Having custom or patronage; frequented.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Familiar through use; usual; customary.
- adjective obsolete Frequented by customers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Familiar through use; usual; customary.
- adjective
Inured to; adapted to existing conditions. - adjective obsolete Frequented by customers
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
accustom .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective commonly used or practiced; usual
- adjective (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to
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Examples
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"Accustomed!" said Belinda, smiling: "one does grow accustomed even to disagreeable things certainly; but at this rate, my dear Lady Anne, I do not doubt but one might grow _accustomed_ to Caliban."
Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Tell us all again about how: the resulting probabilities would look very different from the probabilities to which we are accustomed is great science.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010
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Spencer Aimes is just your average, undercover, government-hired super-assassin accustomed to a life of exotic European locales, flashy sports cars and even flashier women.
Killers Movie Trailer: Why Reboot Mr. and Mrs. Smith When We Have This? | /Film 2010
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Spencer Aimes is just your average, undercover, government-hired super-assassin accustomed to a life of exotic European locales, flashy sports cars and even flashier women.
First Trailer for KILLERS Starring Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher – Collider.com 2010
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Playing to the standards to which Green Bay fans have grown accustomed is something else.
Favre's heir? With backing from mates, Rodgers waits patiently 2008
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The bifurcation between the working poor and the middle class in a capitalist society means that by following the chain of hierarchy to which we have become accustomed translates into those that are most able to exude power being over represented.
A Review: Feminism and Pop Culture Renee 2009
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We are, in short, accustomed to taking cues from the outside world, filtering them through a neural network, and writing our own novel inside our head.
Arthur Rosenfeld: In Praise of Fiction -- A Gentle Reminder 2009
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The bifurcation between the working poor and the middle class in a capitalist society means that by following the chain of hierarchy to which we have become accustomed translates into those that are most able to exude power being over represented.
Archive 2009-06-01 Renee 2009
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You in Canada have not had that history, but are a part of the great British Empire, and you have been accustomed from the first to think in terms of Imperial power, and therefore of the relations of nations one to another.
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To take away from an old woman whose life has been spent in household cares all the foolish little belongings to which her affections cling and to which her very fingers have become accustomed, is to take away her last incentive to activity, almost to life itself.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910
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