You must be courteous to any guest.
Source: tatoeba (69812)
Courteous
//ˈkɜːti.əs//
Synonyms for "courteous" (86 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (43)
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Antonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
7 entriesTranslations
72 translations across 40 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- مُؤَدَّب adj (showing regard for others)
- مُهَذَّب adj (showing regard for others)
Belarusian
1 entries- ве́тлівы adj (showing regard for others)
Bulgarian
3 entries- ве́жлив adj (showing regard for others)
- внима́телен adj (showing regard for others)
- учти́в adj (showing regard for others)
Catalan
1 entries- cortès adj (showing regard for others)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 斯文 adj (showing regard for others)
- 有禮貌 /有礼貌 adj (showing regard for others)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 客氣 /客气 adj (showing regard for others)
- 有禮貌 /有礼貌 adj (showing regard for others)
Czech
2 entries- slušný adj (showing regard for others)
- zdvořilý adj (showing regard for others)
Danish
2 entries- beleven adj (showing regard for others)
- høflig adj (showing regard for others)
Dutch
1 entries- hoffelijk adj (showing regard for others)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĝentila adj (showing regard for others)
Faroese
1 entries- ærutur adj (showing regard for others)
Finnish
1 entries- kohtelias adj (showing regard for others)
French
2 entries- courtois adj (showing regard for others)
- poli adj (showing regard for others)
German
3 entries- aufmerksam adj (showing regard for others)
- höflich adj (showing regard for others)
- zuvorkommend adj (showing regard for others)
Greek
1 entries- αβρόφρων adj (showing regard for others)
Hebrew
1 entries- אדיב adj (showing regard for others)
Hindi
2 entries- विनम्र adj (showing regard for others)
- शालीन adj (showing regard for others)
Ido
1 entries- jentila adj (showing regard for others)
Irish
2 entries- lách adj (showing regard for others)
- sibhialta adj (showing regard for others)
Italian
1 entries- cortese adj (showing regard for others)
Japanese
3 entries- 丁寧 adj (showing regard for others)
- 思いやりのある adj (showing regard for others)
- 礼儀正しい adj (showing regard for others)
Latin
1 entries- cōmis adj (showing regard for others)
Macedonian
4 entries- внима́телен adj (showing regard for others)
- куртоа́зен adj (showing regard for others)
- у́чтив adj (showing regard for others)
- љу́безен adj (showing regard for others)
Middle English
2 entries- curteis adj (showing regard for others)
- semly adj (showing regard for others)
Māori
1 entries- hūmārika adj (showing regard for others)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- høflig adj (showing regard for others)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- høfleg adj (showing regard for others)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- تربیهلو adj (showing regard for others)
- كبار adj (showing regard for others)
- نازك adj (showing regard for others)
Persian
1 entries- مؤدب adj (showing regard for others)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- heeflich adj (showing regard for others)
Polish
2 entries- grzeczny adj (showing regard for others)
- uprzejmy adj (showing regard for others)
Portuguese
1 entries- cortês adj (showing regard for others)
Russian
4 entries- ве́жливый adj (showing regard for others)
- внима́тельный adj (showing regard for others)
- куртуа́зный adj (showing regard for others)
- любе́зный adj (showing regard for others)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- učtiv adj (showing regard for others)
- учтив adj (showing regard for others)
Slovak
2 entries- slušný adj (showing regard for others)
- zdvorilý adj (showing regard for others)
Slovene
1 entries- vljuden adj (showing regard for others)
Spanish
2 entries- cordial adj (showing regard for others)
- cortés adj (showing regard for others)
Swedish
2 entries- artig adj (showing regard for others)
- hövlig adj (showing regard for others)
Turkish
3 entries- efendi adj (showing regard for others)
- kibar adj (showing regard for others)
- nazik adj (showing regard for others)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вві́чливий adj (showing regard for others)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
It is very courteous of you to call on me.
Source: tatoeba (321083)
It was courteous of him to write a letter of thanks.
Source: tatoeba (326097)
So characteristic of what a pious Christian would say, this courteous phrase.
Source: tatoeba (328518)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
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