mores

English

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Alternative forms

• moeurs

Etymology

From the Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɔː.reɪz/

Noun

mores (plural only)

1. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 99:

     All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past—a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores, political and religious restrictions.

Translations

a set of accepted moral norms or customs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 習俗 (cmn), 习俗 (cmn) (xísú), 風俗 (cmn), 风俗 (cmn) (fēngsú)

• Finnish: normit (fi) pl
• French: mœurs (fr) f pl, coutumes (fr) f pl
• German: Sitten (de) f pl, Sittenkodex (de) m

• Japanese: 道徳観 (ja) (どうとくかん, dōtokukan), モーレス (ja) (mōresu), 慣習 (ja) (かんしゅう, kanshū)
• Russian: нравы (ru) (nrávy) m pl, обычаи (ru) (obýčai) m pl, моральный кодекс (ru) (morálʹnyj kódɛks) m

Anagrams

• Morse, morse, omers, s'more, somer

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɔʁ/
• Homophones: maure, maures, more

Adjective

mores m pl and f pl

1. plural of more

Anagrams

• morse

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Latin

Noun

mōrēs

1. nominative plural of mōs
2. accusative plural of mōs
3. vocative plural of mōs

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Portuguese

Verb

mores

1. Second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of morar
2. Second-person singular (tu) negative imperative of morar

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Spanish

Verb

mores (infinitive morar)

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of morar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of morar.