ETIQUETTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does etiquette mean? 

• ETIQUETTE (noun)
  The noun ETIQUETTE has 1 sense:

1. rules governing socially acceptable behavior

  Familiarity information: ETIQUETTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETIQUETTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rules governing socially acceptable behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("etiquette" is a kind of...):

prescript; rule (prescribed guide for conduct or action)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "etiquette"):

protocol (forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state)

punctilio (a fine point of etiquette or petty formality)

 Context examples 

He had abandoned the etiquette books, falling back upon observation to show him the right things to do.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The shutters had been opened, but the blinds were already down, with that obedience to the etiquette of death which the British woman of the lower classes always rigidly observes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the strictest investigation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“'Tis an etiquette I despise,” said he.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She wondered, indeed, at his thinking it necessary to do so; but supposed it to be the proper etiquette.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The duello with its stately etiquette had not yet come into vogue, but rough and sudden encounters were as common as they must ever be when hot-headed youth goes abroad with a weapon strapped to its waist.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now I had a view of all those points of etiquette and curious survivals of custom which are so recent, that we have not yet appreciated that they may some day be as interesting to the social historian as they then were to the sportsman.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I made no complaint, but Wolf Larsen demanded the most punctilious sea etiquette in my case,—far more than poor Johansen had ever received; and at the expense of several rows, threats, and much grumbling, he brought the hunters to time.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He wondered where she had got that item of etiquette, and whether it had filtered down from above and was all right.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was necessary to make this circumstance a matter of pleasure, because on such occasions it is the etiquette; but no one was less likely than Mrs. Bennet to find comfort in staying home at any period of her life.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)