"custom" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

custom sustantivo

sustantivo + custom
Kolokacji: 17
U.S. Custom • custom of one's people • burial custom • marriage custom • folk custom • ...
custom + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 134
customs official • Custom House • customs duty • customs officer • customs agent • customs union • Customs Service • ...
custom + verbo
Kolokacji: 40
custom makes • custom dictates • custom requires • custom varies • custom demands • ...
verbo + custom
Kolokacji: 43
adopt customs • follow the custom • custom made • custom is observed • custom built • ...
adjetivo + custom
Kolokacji: 105
local custom • ancient custom • old custom • social custom • traditional custom • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 31
(1) local, national
Kolokacji: 2
(4) traditional, prevalent
Kolokacji: 2
(5) religious, pagan
Kolokacji: 2
(7) Chinese, British, Scottish
Kolokacji: 3
(8) tribal, American, English
Kolokacji: 3
(9) different, similar, distinct
Kolokacji: 3
(10) usual, common, popular
Kolokacji: 3
(13) native, indigenous
Kolokacji: 2
(15) Islamic, Muslim
Kolokacji: 2
(16) Roman, Italian
Kolokacji: 2
(17) Australian, Russian, Turkish
Kolokacji: 3
(18) certain, particular
Kolokacji: 2
(20) regional, Western
Kolokacji: 2
(21) widespread, unique
Kolokacji: 2
(22) Canadian, Mexican
Kolokacji: 2
(25) old-fashioned, foolish
Kolokacji: 2
1. old-fashioned custom = staroświecki zwyczaj old-fashioned custom
  • There was, in the days of which I write, an old-fashioned custom on the English road, which I suspect is now obsolete, or practised only by the vulgar.
  • "Koizumi's whole plan is to end the power of vested interests and old-fashioned customs, including the privileged circle of journalists," Mr. Toshikawa said.
  • It was obviously a family Bible in which the old-fashioned custom had been continued of entering each new birth.
  • He tends toward the old-fashioned custom of anticipating with the left hand right hand melody lines.
  • "It's just a foolish and dangerous old-fashioned custom," said Dr. Janet Freedman, a former president of the Committee of Interns and Residents, the union for medical trainees.
  • She loved the outdoors- the park, the ocean, the mountains- with a passion he had learned to appreciate and which Jake came by naturally; and she loved old-fashioned customs.
  • The Watchman must keep watch, for this is one of the old-fashioned customs we observe.
  • The villagers of Raveloe live in isolation only because of their old-fashioned customs--they really aren't that far from the rest of civilization.
  • No quarreling with Pop, for instance, about the old-fashioned custom of separating women from men in the synagogue.
  • As such, she reformed the traditions of Danish Court life, abolished many old-fashioned customs at Court and created a more relaxed atmosphere at official receptions.
2. foolish custom = głupi zwyczaj foolish custom
(26) legal, ancestral
Kolokacji: 2
(28) Irish, Celtic
Kolokacji: 2
(29) normal, annual
Kolokacji: 2
(30) Sephardic
Kolokacji: 1
(31) charming, delightful
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + custom
Kolokacji: 17
through customs • by custom • for customs • of customs • with customs • ...

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