norm

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   What is usual, normal, or expected.

   Working from home has become the norm for many people.

2. 2
   noun

   An accepted rule or standard of behaviour within a society or group.

   Every culture has its own social norms.

From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.

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