mores

• moeurs

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔː.ɹeɪz/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹeɪz

mores pl (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, page 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.

   • 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 165:

     It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos with its plural mores, and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the mores — the rules of behaviour — of a society.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /mɔː.ɹz/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹz

mores

1. plural of more

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mores

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of more

• Morse, Moser, Romes, meros, mesor, moers, morse, omers, s'more, smore, somer

mores

1. plural of mora

Borrowed from Latin mōrēs (“customs, rules”).

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• Hyphenation: mo‧res

mores pl (plural only)

1. (college) customs, rules

• iemand mores leren (“to teach someone a lesson”)

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/
• Homophones: maure, maures, more

mores

1. plural of more

• morse

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.reːs/, [ˈmoːreːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.res/, [ˈmɔːres]

mōrēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mōs

• “mores”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mores in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• sermō

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.rɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɛs
• Syllabification: mo‧res

mores m inan

1. law obedience

   Synonyms: karność, subordynacja

• mores in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mores in Polish dictionaries at PWN

mores

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of morar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾes/ [ˈmo.ɾes]
• Rhymes: -oɾes
• Syllabification: mo‧res

mores

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of morar