usual

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Happening or done most of the time; normal and expected.

   We met at our usual time on Friday afternoon.

2. 2
   noun

   The thing, such as a drink or meal, that someone normally orders.

   He sat down at the bar and asked for the usual.

From Middle English usual, from Old French usuel, from Latin ūsuālis (“for use, fit for use, also of common use, customary, common, ordinary, usual”), from ūsus (“use, habit, custom”), from the past participle stem of ūtī (“to use”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃eyt- (“to take along, fetch”). Displaced native Old English ġewunelīċ.

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