- 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. - Manners; conduct; behavior. - Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure;
custom; habitual use; method. - Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a
particular sense or signification. - Experience.
Meaning of 'usage' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . usage
[ n]
Meaning (1): - the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written