It can take years for people who migrate to a country to gain an understanding of the social and cultural mores of that country.
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Mores
//ˈmɔːɹeɪz//
Synonyms for "mores" (98 found)
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moralitymoralsnatural politenessnormnormsobservancepoint of etiquettepolitenesspolitessepracticepraxisprescriptionproper thingproprietiesproprietyprotocolpunctilioquiet good mannersritualrules of conduct
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social codesocial conductsocial conventionsocial gracesocial gracessocial proceduressocial usagesocietyspiritual climatestandard behaviorstandard usagestanding customthe conventionsthe moresthe proprietiesthe right thingstimetime-honored practicetraditiontraittrait-complexusageusewayweltanschauungwhat is donewontwontingworld view
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1 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 13 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- norme noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Bulgarian
1 entries- нрави noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 習俗 /习俗 noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- 風俗 /风俗 noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Czech
2 entries- mrav noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- mravy noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Finnish
1 entries- normit noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
French
2 entries- coutumes noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- mœurs noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
German
4 entries- Bräuche noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- Gebräuche noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- Gepflogenheiten noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- Konventionen noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Japanese
3 entries- モーレス noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- 慣習 noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- 道徳観 noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Portuguese
2 entries- costumes noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- moras noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Romanian
1 entries- moravuri noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Russian
3 entries- мора́льный ко́декс noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- нра́вы noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- обы́чаи noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Swedish
2 entries- seder noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
- sedvänjor noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Tagalog
1 entries- malig noun (a set of accepted moral norms or customs)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
It's the capital above all that makes the mores of people; it's Paris that makes the French.
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Comedy reproves mores through laughter.
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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.
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