CUSTOMS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does customs mean? 

• CUSTOMS (noun)
  The noun CUSTOMS has 1 sense:

1. money collected under a tariff

  Familiarity information: CUSTOMS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUSTOMS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Money collected under a tariff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

custom; customs; customs duty; impost

Hypernyms ("customs" is a kind of...):

duty; tariff (a government tax on imports or exports)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "customs"):

ship money (an impost levied in England to provide money for ships for national defense)

 Context examples 

It includes language, styles of communication, practices, customs, and views on roles and relationships.

(Culture, NCI Thesaurus)

Why, good dame, said Alleyne, I would not offend the customs of your house, but it is only sooth when I say that my purse is a thin one.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Culture includes language, customs, and beliefs about roles and relationships.

(Culture, NCI Dictionary)

The inevitable variety in customs, attitudes, practices, and behaviors that exists among groups of individuals from different ethnic, racial, or national backgrounds who come into contact within a social unit, organization, or population.

(Cultural Diversity, NCI Thesaurus)

I would exactly set down the several changes in customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And if he be carried, then the customs men may discover what the box contain.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then he seemed quite inspired, though the burial customs of the ancients, to which the conversation had strayed, might not be considered an exhilarating topic.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The full moon of November 12 brings an emphasis on distant travel and/or international relationships and also immigration matters, bringing up such subjects as a green card, passport, visa, and customs rules.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Groups of individuals that exhibit differing characteristic behavior in customs, attitudes, practices, and behaviors, or are predisposed to certain health histories due to differences in ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, or economic standing (DCCPS)

(Culturally and Economically Diverse Group, NCI Thesaurus)