Etiquette

Quick meaning: Etiquette is a noun meaning The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society.

Meaning

The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society.

More Meanings

1. The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
2. A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.

Example Sentences

Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.

Whenever Root would put his elbows on the table or clatter his dishes or commit any other breach of etiquette, the Professor would gently correct him.

20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? Much shock was expressed in the British press about the Palace’s utter failure to control the Markles and the Markles’ lack of etiquette.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decency, courtesy, morality, ritual, labelling, protocol.

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