Synonyms for customers


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuhs-tuh-mer
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌs tə mər


Définition of customers

Origin :
  • late 14c., "customs official;" later "buyer" (early 15c.), from Anglo-French custumer, from Medieval Latin custumarius, from Latin consuetudinarius (see custom (n.)). More generalized meaning "a person with whom one has dealings" emerged 1540s; that of "a person to deal with" (usually wth an adjective, tough, etc.) is by 1580s. In Shakespeare, the word also can mean "prostitute."
  • noun buyer of goods, services
Example sentences :
  • I was told by one or two of my customers to go and hear him, but somehow or other I never did.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • It were a pity, if all this outcry should draw no customers.
  • Extract from : « A Rill from the Town Pump (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Customers came just then, to change the current of his thoughts.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • Billy here was goin' to fire him out when one of my customers said he knew him.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • No mechanic has a set of customers so trustworthy as God and the elements.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • She was quite honest, and she served her father's customers with modesty.
  • Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous
  • Dapper-waisted waitresses in black, with white aprons, served the customers.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • All our customers will want gowns like these, and we shall never be able to make them!
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • In a similar way I am, or I have been, trustee of one kind or other for scores of our customers.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens

Antonyms for customers

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