Custom and Rite

Custom

Custom noun - A usual manner of behaving or doing.

Rite is a synonym for custom in ritual topic. In some cases you can use "Rite" instead a noun "Custom", when it comes to topics like event.

Rite

Rite noun - An oft-repeated action or series of actions performed in accordance with tradition or a set of rules.
Usage example: the annual summer rite of loading up the car for the big family vacation
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Synonyms for Rite

Custom is a synonym for rite in ceremony topic. You can use "Custom" instead a noun "Rite", if it concerns topics such as ritual, performance, event, way.

How words are described

old old custom old rite
special special custom special rite
long long custom long rite
similar similar custom similar rite
Other adjectives: common, alien, proper, difficult, barbaric, informal, popular, important, ancient, religious, traditional, different, sacred, cultural, tribal, greek.

Both words in one sentence

  • Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me In The Crystal Cave, after 12-year-old Merlin is caught spying on a secret rite, Count Ambrosius orders him brought to his headquarters, where he is given a hot bath (a Roman custom) and a meal.
  • Open-Minded Parent Mrs. Ketchum has no problem with allowing her son Ash, age 10, to travel the Pokémon world - with or without any traveling companions and amass a small personal army of creatures who protect him; it's a custom that borders on Rite of Passage, after all.
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