courteous

English

Etymology

From Middle English curteis, from Old French curteis (French courtois), from cort (“court”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɝti.əs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɜːti.əs/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

courteous (comparative more courteous, superlative most courteous)

1. Showing regard or thought for others; especially, displaying good manners or etiquette.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:polite

   Antonyms: discourteous, uncourteous; see also Thesaurus:impolite

   a courteous gentleman   a courteous gesture

   • 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:

     Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]

Derived terms

• courteously
• courteousness
• discourteous
• overcourteous
• uncourteous

Related terms

• courtesy

Translations

showing regard for others

Arabic: مُهَذَّب (muhaḏḏab), مُؤَدَّب (muʔaddab) Belarusian: ве́тлівы (vjétlivy) Bulgarian: учти́в (bg) (učtív), внима́телен (bg) (vnimátelen), ве́жлив (bg) (véžliv) Catalan: cortès (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 有禮貌 / 有礼貌 (jau5 lai5 maau6), 斯文 (si1 man4) Mandarin: 有禮貌 / 有礼貌 (zh) (yǒulǐmào), 客氣 / 客气 (zh) (kèqi) Czech: zdvořilý (cs), slušný (cs) Danish: høflig (da), beleven (da) Dutch: hoffelijk (nl) Esperanto: ĝentila (eo) Faroese: ærutur Finnish: kohtelias (fi) French: courtois (fr), poli (fr) German: höflich (de), zuvorkommend (de), aufmerksam (de) Greek: αβρόφρων (el) (avrófron) Hebrew: אדיב (he) (adiv) Ido: jentila (io) Irish: lách, sibhialta Italian: cortese (it) Japanese: 丁寧 (ja) (ていねい, teinei), 礼儀正しい (ja) (reigitadashii), 思いやりのある (omoiyarinoaru) Latin: cōmis (la) Macedonian: у́чтив (účtiv), љу́безен (ljúbezen), внима́телен (vnimátelen), куртоа́зен (kurtoázen) Maori: hūmārika Middle English: curteis, semly Norwegian: Bokmål: høflig Nynorsk: høfleg Persian: مؤدب (fa) (mo'addab) Plautdietsch: heeflich Polish: uprzejmy (pl), grzeczny (pl) Portuguese: cortês (pt) Russian: любе́зный (ru) (ljubéznyj), ве́жливый (ru) (véžlivyj), обходи́тельный (ru) (obxodítelʹnyj), учти́вый (ru) (učtívyj), внима́тельный (ru) (vnimátelʹnyj), куртуа́зный (ru) (kurtuáznyj) (archaic) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: учтив Roman: učtiv (sh) Slovak: zdvorilý, slušný Slovene: vljuden (sl) Spanish: cordial (es), cortés (es) Swedish: artig (sv), hövlig (sv) Turkish: kibar (tr), nazik (tr), efendi (tr) Ukrainian: вві́чливий (uk) (vvíčlyvyj)

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