Etiquette

Definition: Etiquette

Etiquette

Noun

1. Rules governing socially acceptable behavior.

Date "etiquette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Etiquette \Et"i*quette`\, noun. [French expression prop., little piece of paper, or mark or title, affixed to bag or bundle, expressing its contents, label, ticket, Old French estiquete, of German origin; compare to Low German stikke peg, pin, tack, stikken to stick, German stecken. See Stick, and compare to Ticket.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	A convenient code of conduct which makes Lying a virtue and Snobbishness a righteous deed. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Etiquette

Synonyms: Ceremonies, Courtesies, Manners, Politeness, Usages. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fashion	Manners, breeding; (politeness); air, demeanor; (appearance); savoir faire; gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_ance; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress.
Impulse	Prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette; (gentility); order of the day, cry; conformity; consuetude,.dustoor.
Ostentation	Ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto, punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Etiquette

English words defined with "etiquette": abnormality ♦ de rigueur ♦ formalities, formality, full dress ♦ irregularity ♦ protocol, punctilio. (references)

Specialty definitions using "etiquette": netiquette ♦ Podsnappery ♦ Silver Fork School ♦ WAITER/WAITRESS, FORMAL. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Etiquette" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (etiquette).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm programmed for etiquette, not destruction! (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) Now a question of etiquette; as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch? (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Etiquette class? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Look, I'm no etiquette expert, but I think when someone is generous enough to give you six sports cars, it's in bad form to ask for a seventh. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) Prince without a shirt Not allowed by etiquette. (Vesyoloye snovideniye, ili smekh i slyozy; writing credit: Sergei Mikhalkov; Arnold Vitol)
Movie/TV Titles	Telephone Etiquette (1974) Golf Etiquette (1973) Counter Etiquette. Part 2 (1967) Date Etiquette (1952) Office Etiquette (1950)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Be The Best You Can Be; A Guide to Etiquette and Self-Improvement for Children and Teens (reference) Bridezilla: True Tales from Etiquette Hell (reference) Emily Post on Etiquette (reference) The Etiquette Advantage in Business: Personal Skills for Professional Success (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Mastering Business Etiquette And Protocol (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Etiquette Survival Series (reference) Payne Stewart's Guide of Golf Etiquette (reference) Pebe's Dog Etiquette 101 - Dog Training for Busy People (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Machine Gun Etiquette (reference) Suburban Etiquette (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Hyman Maxwell Berston	Etiquette is getting sleepy in company and not showing it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Etiquette includes small talk before getting into business. (references)
		Taiwan business people and government officials will readily forgive small mistakes in Chinese etiquette if they believe the offender is honest and sincere. (references)
		As for the smaller ports, their authorities are less likely to grasp the finer nuances and etiquette of conducting international business during this initial phase. (references)
Economic History	Japan	Japanese language skills can be invaluable, as can a thorough background in Japanese culture and etiquette. (references)
Travel	Philippines	Philippine business has its own etiquette. (references)
	Philippines	Observing office etiquette is also important. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Etiquette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.94% of the time. "Etiquette" is used about 189 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.94%	187	22,491
Noun (common)	1.06%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	189	N/A

Expressions using "etiquette": breach of etiquette ♦ not to stand upon etiquette ♦ point of etiquette ♦ question of etiquette. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "etiquette": eliot-etiquette.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "etiquette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		etiketë (band, decorum, label, punctilio, tag, tally, ticket), etikë profesionale, rregulla të mirësjelljes (decencies). (various references)

Arabic		‏قواعد التشريفات, ‏آداب المعاشرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		церемониал (ceremonial, form), етикет (ceremonial, check, docket, formality, label, stamp, sticker, tab, tally, ticket), професионална етика. (various references)

Chinese		禮節 , 禮儀 . (various references)

Czech		etiketa (label, tab, tag). (various references)

Dutch		label (fly-tag, label, pendant, tie-on label), etiquette, etiket (docket, label, placard). (various references)

Esperanto		etiketo. (various references)

Farsi		علم اداب معاشرت (Kith), اداب (Ceremonial, Mores, Rite), اءین معاشرت , رسوم (Manner, Mores). (various references)

Finnish		etiketti (label). (various references)

French		étiquette. (various references)

German		etikette (label), Etikett (docket, label, labelling, sticker, tab, tag, ticket). (various references)

Greek		εθιμοτυπία (ceremony, protocol). (various references)

Hebrew		כללי �"ת� �"�'ות (code), �'� ון (manner), �'� ו� ים (mannerism, mores), �'� ו� י טכס, טקס (ceremony, observance, protocol), � ימוסים (decorum, good manners, manners, mores, propriety), � ימוס (courtesy, observance, politeness, tact, usage). (various references)

Hungarian		etikett, társasági szabályok. (various references)

Indonesian		etiket (label, tag), tatakrama, tata cara (customs and manners). (various references)

Italian		etichetta (ceremonial, formalization, label, sticker, tab, tag, ticket). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		礼儀 (courtesy, manners). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぎれい (courtesy), ぎょうぎさほう, さほう (left side, manners, propriety), �"うさいほう (social code), れいぎさほう (courtesy), れいぎ (courtesy, manners), れいしき (established form, manners, regular ceremony), れいほう (courtesy, manners, sacred mountain, sacred treasure, salute), れいて�" (no marks, ritual, zero), エチケット , て�"れい (ceremony, courtesy, graceful, liturgy, seal style and ancient square style). (various references)

Manx		jeih-veays. (various references)

Pig Latin		etiquetteay

Portuguese		etiqueta (badge, ceremony, docket, formality, label, punctilio, rite, sticker, tag, tally, ticket), cerimonial (ceremonial, ordinance, pompon, ritual). (various references)

Romanian		etichetã (ceremony, courtesy, decorum, docket, label, stamp, tag, ticket), norme de comportare, formalitate (ceremony, formality), fason (conventionality, cut, fashion, fuss, sort), convenienţã (collusion, decency, decorum, seemliness, suitability). (various references)

Russian		этикет. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		etiketa (docket, label, strap on tin, tag, ticket). (various references)

Spanish		etiqueta (amenities, black tie, dinner-jacket, docket, formality, label, Mark, tab, tag, ticket, tuxedo), educación (education, fosterage, instruction, mannerliness, manners, nurture, politeness, refinement, school, upbringing), modo de portarse (conduit, convenances, demeanor, demeanour), leyes de vida. (various references)

Swedish		etikett (convention, form, label, tab, tag, tally, ticket). (various references)

Thai		มารยาท (grace). (various references)

Turkish		etiket (docket, flag, label, sticker, tab, tag, tally, ticket), görgü kuralları (breeding, do's and don'ts, proprieties, respectabilities), görgü (breeding, convenances, cultivation, good manners, grace, manners). (various references)

Ukranian		коректність (civility, correctness), етикет (ceremony, decorum). (various references)

Vietnamese		phép xã giao nghi lễ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	estiquette. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "etiquette": etiquettes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "etiquette": netiquette. (additional references)
	Words containing "etiquette": netiquettes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Etiquette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ediquette, etiquate, etiquet, etiquete, etiquetle, etiquett, etiquite, etiquitte, etiqute, etiqutte, ettiquet, ettiquete, ettiquette, ettiquettte, ettiquitte, tiquet, tiquette. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "etiquette" (pronounced e"tukut)
4	-u k u t	advocate, delicate, duplicate, intricate, silicate.
3	-k u t	affricate, aftermarket, basket, Becket, biscuit, blanket, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, certificate, circuit, cricket, docket, gasket, hypermarket, indelicate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wastebasket, wicket.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-q-t-t-t-u"
	-4 letters: quiet, quite, tutee, tutti.
	-5 letters: etui, quit.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-q-t-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: etiquettes, netiquette.
	+2 letters: netiquettes.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 74 69 71 75 65 74 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

. - .. --.- ..- . - - .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110100 01101001 01110001 01110101 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#116 &#105 &#113 &#117 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0074 0069 0071 0075 0065 0074 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
wedding etiquette	2,062	cell phone etiquette	58
etiquette	1,732	dating etiquette	55
flag etiquette	379	etiquette shower wedding	55
wedding invitation etiquette	369	wedding guest etiquette	54
business etiquette	288	etiquette graduation	52
phone etiquette	242	engagement party etiquette	51
email etiquette	186	american and flag and etiquette	51
baby shower etiquette	165	etiquette hell	51
invitation etiquette	137	wedding reception etiquette	46
wedding gift etiquette	133	etiquette thank	46
tipping etiquette	124	dinner etiquette rehearsal	44
funeral etiquette	123	proper etiquette	43
bridal shower etiquette	120	etiquette school	43
office etiquette	114	manners etiquette	43
table etiquette	98	engagement etiquette	41
dining etiquette	93	emily post etiquette	40
golf etiquette	82	party etiquette	39
e mail etiquette	80	bridal etiquette	39
social etiquette	71	gift etiquette	39
thank you note and etiquette	60	card etiquette thank	39
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Etiquette

Definition: Etiquette

Etiquette

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Etiquette

19th Century Satire

Synonyms: Etiquette

Synonyms within Context: Etiquette

Fashion

Impulse

Ostentation

Crosswords: Etiquette

Modern Usage: Etiquette

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Etiquette

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

Familiar Quotations: Etiquette

Hyman Maxwell Berston

Non-Fiction Usage: Etiquette

Business

Economic History

Japan

Travel

Philippines

Philippines

Usage Frequency: Etiquette

Expression: Etiquette

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Etiquette

wedding etiquette

cell phone etiquette

etiquette

dating etiquette

flag etiquette

etiquette shower wedding

wedding invitation etiquette

wedding guest etiquette

business etiquette

etiquette graduation

phone etiquette

engagement party etiquette

email etiquette

american and flag and etiquette

baby shower etiquette

etiquette hell

invitation etiquette

wedding reception etiquette

wedding gift etiquette

etiquette thank

tipping etiquette

dinner etiquette rehearsal

funeral etiquette

proper etiquette

bridal shower etiquette

etiquette school

office etiquette

manners etiquette

table etiquette

engagement etiquette

dining etiquette

emily post etiquette

golf etiquette

party etiquette

e mail etiquette

bridal etiquette

social etiquette

gift etiquette

thank you note and etiquette

card etiquette thank

Modern Translations: Etiquette

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Dutch

Esperanto