"decorum" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /dɪˈkɔːɹəm/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-decorum.wav Forms: decora [plural], decorums [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin decōrum, neuter form of decōrus (“proper, decent”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*deḱ-}}, {{lbor|en|la|decōrum}} Learned borrowing from Latin decōrum Head templates: {{en-noun|~|decora|s}} decorum (countable and uncountable, plural decora or decorums)
  1. (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Human behaviour Synonyms: decency, courtesy, propriety, etiquette Translations (appropriate social behavior; propriety): εὐσχημοσύνη (euskhēmosúnē) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), благоприличие (blagopriličie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), decòrum [masculine] (Catalan), decor [masculine] (Catalan), 體統 /体统 (tǐtǒng) (Chinese Mandarin), 端正 (duānzhèng) (Chinese Mandarin), hyvä käytös (Finnish), säädyllisyys (Finnish), käytöstavat (Finnish), décorum [masculine] (French), decoro [masculine] (Galician), დეკორუმი (deḳorumi) (Georgian), ეტიკეტი (eṭiḳeṭi) (Georgian), წესიერება (c̣esiereba) (Georgian), ღირსეულობა (ɣirseuloba) (Georgian), ზრდილობა (zrdiloba) (Georgian), ზრდილობის წესები (zrdilobis c̣esebi) (Georgian), Anstand [masculine] (German), Etikette [feminine] (German), Schicklichkeit [feminine] (German), Anständigkeit [feminine] (German), guter Ton [masculine] (German), Dekorum [neuter] (German), ευπρέπεια (efprépeia) [feminine] (Greek), illem (Hungarian), illendőség (Hungarian), tisztesség (Hungarian), decoro [masculine] (Italian), 礼儀) (reigi) (alt: れいぎ) (Japanese), 端正さ (たんせいさ (Japanese), tansei-sa) (Japanese), 礼儀正しさ (れいぎただしさ (Japanese), reigi tadashisa) (Japanese), decōrum [neuter] (Latin), beasaght [feminine] (Manx), decorum [neuter] (Polish), dekorum [neuter] (Polish), decoro [masculine] (Portuguese), ਤਮੀਜ਼ (tamīz) [feminine] (Punjabi), cuviință (Romanian), cădere (Romanian), decență (Romanian), благопристо́йность (blagopristójnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), деко́рум (dɛkórum) [literary, masculine] (Russian), прили́чие (prilíčije) [neuter] (Russian), благоприли́чие (blagoprilíčije) [neuter] (Russian), decoro [masculine] (Spanish), pundonor [masculine] (Spanish)
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  2. (countable) A convention of social behavior. Tags: countable Translations (a convention of social behavior): етикет (etiket) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 禮儀 /礼仪 (lǐyí) (Chinese Mandarin), etiketti (Finnish), Anstandsregel [feminine] (German), Anstandsregeln [plural] (German), Konventionen [plural] (German), Konvention [feminine] (German), Benimmregel [feminine] (German), illemszabály (Hungarian), szokás (Hungarian), konvenció (Hungarian), 礼儀作法 (reigi sahō) (alt: れいぎさほう) (Japanese), 礼儀 (reigi) (alt: れいぎ) (Japanese), этике́т (etikét) [masculine] (Russian), пра́вила поведе́ния (právila povedénija) [neuter, plural] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-decorum-en-noun-cWI3fvIv Disambiguation of 'a convention of social behavior': 23 77

Inflected forms

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          "word": "ευπρέπεια"
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
      "word": "tisztesség"
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
      "word": "端正さ (たんせいさ"
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "word": "decōrum"
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "word": "beasaght"
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "word": "decorum"
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      "word": "dekorum"
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "word": "ਤਮੀਜ਼"
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
      "word": "cuviință"
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "roman": "blagopristójnostʹ",
      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "благопристо́йность"
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      "roman": "dɛkórum",
      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "word": "деко́рум"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "prilíčije",
      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "word": "прили́чие"
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      "sense": "appropriate social behavior; propriety",
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      "word": "decoro"
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      "word": "pundonor"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "etiket",
      "sense": "a convention of social behavior",
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      "roman": "lǐyí",
      "sense": "a convention of social behavior",
      "word": "禮儀 /礼仪"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "a convention of social behavior",
      "word": "etiketti"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a convention of social behavior",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Anstandsregel"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "a convention of social behavior",
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      "sense": "a convention of social behavior",
      "word": "illemszabály"
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      "sense": "a convention of social behavior",
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      "sense": "a convention of social behavior",
      "word": "konvenció"
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      "alt": "れいぎさほう",
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      "sense": "a convention of social behavior",
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      "roman": "právila povedénija",
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      "word": "пра́вила поведе́ния"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.