etiquette
pronunciation
How to pronounce etiquette in British English:
UK [ˈetɪket]
How to pronounce etiquette in American English:
US [ˈetɪket]
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- Noun:
- rules governing socially acceptable behavior
Word Origin
- etiquette
- etiquette: [18] Etiquette is, almost literally, ‘just the ticket’. The primary meanings of French étiquette are ‘ticket’ and ‘label’ – and indeed it is the source of English ticket. A particular application of it in former times was to a small card which had written or printed on it directions as to how to behave properly at court – hence it came to mean ‘prescribed code of social behaviour’.=> ticket
- etiquette (n.)
- 1750, from French étiquette "prescribed behavior," from Old French estiquette "label, ticket" (see ticket (n.)). The sense development in French perhaps is from small cards written or printed with instructions for how to behave properly at court (compare Italian etichetta, Spanish etiqueta), and/or from behavior instructions written on a soldier's billet for lodgings (the main sense of the Old French word).
Example
- 1. But , don 't forget social and professional etiquette .
- 2. In the old days the etiquette was clear .
- 3. What is interesting in your case is that the penalties for ignoring etiquette are lower than normal .
- 4. Etiquette questions will also arise among friends .
- 5. I knew this city has a complex etiquette .