"accustom" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ə.ˈkʌs.təm/ Audio: en-us-accustom.ogg [US] Forms: accustoms [plural]
Etymology: From Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|acoustumer}} Old French acoustumer, {{m|fro|acustumer}} acustumer, {{cog|fr|accoutumer}} French accoutumer, {{m|fro|a||to, toward}} a (“to, toward”), {{m|fro|coustume|custom}} custom, {{m|en|custom}} custom, {{m|en|costume}} costume Head templates: {{en-noun}} accustom (plural accustoms)
  1. (obsolete) Custom. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-accustom-en-noun-5AyUpwZm

Verb

IPA: /ə.ˈkʌs.təm/ Audio: en-us-accustom.ogg [US] Forms: accustoms [present, singular, third-person], accustoming [participle, present], accustomed [participle, past], accustomed [past]
Etymology: From Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|acoustumer}} Old French acoustumer, {{m|fro|acustumer}} acustumer, {{cog|fr|accoutumer}} French accoutumer, {{m|fro|a||to, toward}} a (“to, toward”), {{m|fro|coustume|custom}} custom, {{m|en|custom}} custom, {{m|en|costume}} costume Head templates: {{en-verb}} accustom (third-person singular simple present accustoms, present participle accustoming, simple past and past participle accustomed)
  1. (transitive, often passive voice or reflexive, with to) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure. Tags: transitive Translations (to make familiar by use): свиквам (svikvam) (Bulgarian), acostumar (Catalan), doen wennen (aan) (Dutch), wennen (aan) (english: to accustom oneself) (Dutch), totuttaa (Finnish), sopeuttaa (Finnish), accoutumer (French), adoitar (Galician), acostumar (Galician), gewöhnen (German), הסכין (hee-skeen) (Hebrew), szoktat (Hungarian), hozzászoktat (Hungarian), rászoktat (Hungarian), aatuttaa (Ingrian), assuefarsi (Italian), abituarsi (Italian), adattarsi (Italian), familiarizzare (Italian), akostumbrar (Ladino), auzar (Ladino), assuefacio (Latin), whakawaia (Maori), przyzwyczajać [imperfective] (Polish), przyzwyczaić [perfective] (Polish), acostumar (Portuguese), приуча́ть (priučátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), приучи́ть (priučítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), cleachd (Scottish Gaelic), на̀викнути [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), на̀вићи [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), nàviknuti [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), nàvići [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), acostumbrarse (Spanish), habituar (Spanish), คุ้นเคย (khoon-khuey) (Thai), привча́ти (pryvčáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), привчи́ти (pryvčýty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), призвича́ювати (pryzvyčájuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), призвича́їти (pryzvyčájity) [perfective] (Ukrainian), mısayen (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-accustom-en-verb-nJczDZ~u Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 55 9 7 Disambiguation of 'to make familiar by use': 96 3 1
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wont. Tags: intransitive, obsolete Translations (to be wont): plegen (Dutch), sich gewöhnen (english: to get used/accustomed to) (German), pflegen (German), aattua (Ingrian), привыка́ть (privykátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), привы́кнуть (privýknutʹ) (english: to get used/accustomed to) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-accustom-en-verb-vqeIicRF Disambiguation of 'to be wont': 4 94 1
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To cohabit. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-accustom-en-verb-nQ3wthDm
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: acclimatize, acclimate [US], acculture, climatize Derived forms: accustomable, accustomary, accustomate, reaccustom, unaccustom Related terms: custom, customary, familiarize, train
Synonyms: habituate, get used to, inure, exercise, train, Intransitive:, accommodate [rare], accustom, adapt, adjust, compensate, Transitive:, season, wont

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Derailment at Lincoln”, in Modern Railways, page 375",
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          "word": "acostumar"
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          "sense": "to make familiar by use",
          "word": "cleachd"
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          "sense": "to make familiar by use",
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to make familiar by use",
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to make familiar by use",
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to make familiar by use",
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          "word": "nàvići"
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          "sense": "to make familiar by use",
          "word": "acostumbrarse"
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to make familiar by use",
          "word": "habituar"
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          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "khoon-khuey",
          "sense": "to make familiar by use",
          "word": "คุ้นเคย"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "pryvčáty",
          "sense": "to make familiar by use",
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      "word": "sopeuttaa"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "word": "adoitar"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "to make familiar by use",
      "word": "acostumar"
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "gewöhnen"
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      "sense": "to make familiar by use",
      "word": "הסכין"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "szoktat"
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      "word": "aatuttaa"
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      "word": "assuefarsi"
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      "code": "it",
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "adattarsi"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "word": "acostumar"
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      "word": "cleachd"
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      "word": "คุ้นเคย"
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/En-us-accustom.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "accustom"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.